Gandhinagar – Ahead of planned cabinet expansion in Gujarat, all 16 ministers in Gujarat, excluding Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel, submitted their resignations Thursday, paving the way for a major cabinet reshuffle scheduled for Friday, October 17, 2025. “Resignations of all the 16 ministers have been taken by the party. Except for chief minister Patel, all the ministers have resigned,” said a BJP source. As per the official release, the cabinet expansion will take place at 11.30 am on Friday. The chief minister, who has led the state since September 2021, held a meeting with the ministers after their resignations. The ministers have started vacating their offices, a party official said. The chief minister is expected to meet governor Acharya Devvrat later this evening to submit the list of new ministers. The governor, who also holds charge of Maharashtra, is expected to reach Gandhinagar by 8pm. The new team will be sworn in at 11.30 am at Mahatma Mandir, Gandhinagar, in the presence of senior leaders including Union Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP President JP Nadda. The newly appointed state BJP president, Jagdish Vishwakarma, is unlikely to be retained in line with the party’s “one person, one post” rule. The government may also revive the post of deputy chief minister, with Harsh Sanghvi and Kunvarji Halpati among the likely contenders, a BJP leader said. The current cabinet, which consists of 17 members including the Chief Minister, will be expanded to around 26 or 27 members—aligning with the maximum permissible size for Gujarat’s 182-member assembly. This is the first major cabinet overhaul after Bhupendra Patel, who replaced Vijay Rupani as chief minister in 2021, led the BJP to a landslide victory in the 2022 state elections. |
Gujarat Cabinet Expansion: All Ministers, except CM, Resign Ahead of Major Expansion
