Bhupendra Patel

Gujarat CM Bhupendra Patel thanked the PM as well as Sitharaman for giving a "comprehensive budget that fulfils this promise and is beneficial for all sections of the society".

If the MoUs signed at the VGGS that was to be organised in 2022 but postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic were added up, a total of 98,540 MoUs with investment proposals worth more than Rs 45 lakh crore were inked, he said.

Kanu Desai, 71, a three-time MLA from Pardi in Valsad district who was minister of finance, energy and petrochemicals in the previous Bhupendra Patel government which took office in September 2021.

Top BJP leaders, including Union ministers and chief ministers of the states where the party is in power, were present at the swearing in ceremony.

Patel was administered oath as the 18th Chief Minister at the helipad ground in Gandhinagar in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah.

Bhupendra Patel will be administered the oath as the 18th chief minister by Governor Acharya Devvrat at a function to be held at the Helipad Ground near the new Secretariat at 2 PM.

After the meeting, Patel met Governor Acharya Devvrat at Raj Bhavan and staked a claim to form a government, two days after the BJP won a record mandate in the state elections by winning 156 seats in the 182-member House.

In September last year, he replaced Vijay Rupani as the chief minister. The BJP registered a historic victory in Gujarat by clinching 156 seats in the 182-member House on Thursday, much higher than its tally of 99 seats in 2017.

The BJP registered a historic victory in Gujarat by clinching 156 seats in the 182-member House.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah would attend his swearing-in ceremony, BJP's state unit president C R Paatil said on Thursday while addressing a press conference.

Vedanta and Foxconn were earlier reported to have zeroed in on Maharashtra for the strategic investment.

A Congress delegation led by Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot, Gujarat party president Jagdish Thakor and former MP CM Digvijaya Singh visited Morbi on Monday, a day after the suspension bridge over the Machchhu river collapsed.

At least 134 people have died in the bridge collapse.

The viral video shows people holding onto the metal railings as the Morbi bridge began to sway seconds before it collapsed throwing people into the Machchhu river.

Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel unveiled the 'Gujarat Semiconductor Policy’, will remain in force till 2027, state Science and Technology Minister Jitu Vaghani said in a statement.

Underlining that the state’s finances are in good shape, Bhupendra Patel said in the long run the AAP’s culture of freebies is not good for the state and society as well.

The "Gujarat Biotechnology Policy 2022-27" has been formulated with a vision to create over 1.20 lakh new employment opportunities as the state government expects to attract capital investment of Rs 20,000 crore in the sector in coming years, said an official release.

Bhupendra Patel said the state government has provided several incentives for "technology up-gradation, skill enhancement-development, and promoting textile parks-clusters in its textile policy." He was speaking at an event on 'Weaving Growth for Textiles', organized as part of the Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit (VGGS) 2022.

Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel has, however, said that the state government does not have an issue with people consuming non-vegetarian food.

As per a rough estimate, around 100 pilgrims from different parts of Gujarat, who went to Uttarakhand for the Chardham Yatra, were stranded following heavy rains and landslides there, Gujarat Revenue Minister Rajendra Trivedi said.