The 60-year-old first-time MLA from Ahmedabad, Bhupendra Patel has spent most of his political profession in city native our bodies because the Ahmedabad Municipal Company (AMC) Standing Committee chairman in addition to the Ahmedabad City Growth Authority (AUDA) head. The BJP, which has been ruling Gujarat for over 25 years constantly, had simply managed to get a easy majority when it received 99 of the full 182 seats within the 2017 Meeting polls.
Tasked by the BJP management with making certain a “glitch-free” governance and steer the saffron dispensation easily by the essential Gujarat Meeting polls slated for December this 12 months, Patel, a low-profile chief, has his activity reduce out.
On October 1, C R Paatil, the high-profile state BJP chief, mentioned Patel can be “repeated” for an additional chief ministerial time period as he has performed “good work”.
Patel’s one-year tenure on the helm of the Gujarat authorities has been marked with a number of notable developments and rows, which embrace two ministers, Rajendra Trivedi and Purnesh Modi, being lately stripped of necessary portfolios, agitations by authorities staff on varied points, paper leak of a authorities recruitment examination, cattle being hit by the lumpy pores and skin illness in 26 of the state’s 33 districts, deaths of 42 folks in a hooch tragedy, a document 21000-kg drug seizure from the Mundra port, the remission of 11 convicts within the Bilkis Bano gangrape case, and the scrapping of a invoice meant to manage the stray cattle menace following robust protests by Maldharis (cattle rearers) towards it.
In line with his election affidavit, Patel has obtained a diploma in civil engineering and runs a development agency previously referred to as Vihan Associates, which is managed by his son and son-in-law. The agency has now been renamed as Ansh Development.
A Kadva Patidar chief, Patel is believed to have been elevated to the highest state put up by the BJP management to pacify the agitating Patidar group, which is taken into account to be the celebration’s core vote financial institution. He was thought of to be a loyalist of UP Governor and ex-Gujarat CM, Anandiben Patel, and had campaigned for her within the 2012 Gujarat elections.
Patel, who’s from Dariapur space of previous Ahmedabad, is the primary Gujarat CM from Ahmedabad metropolis. His Ghatlodia Meeting seat is a part of the Gandhinagar Lok Sabha constituency which is at present represented by Union house minister Amit Shah.
Patel is perceived to have a picture of a non-controversial and dedicated BJP chief. He’s additionally thought of to be a non secular particular person, who’s a follower of Simandhar Swami, a residing tirthankara.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who throughout his frequent visits to his house state Gujarat typically initiatives the success of the “double engine sarkar” (each the Centre and the state authorities being dominated by the BJP), has described Patel as a “Mrudu ane Makkam (smooth and agency)” CM.