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The Bharatiya Janata Party on August 05, 2016 announced the name of Vijay Rupani as the 16th Chief Minister of Gujarat, with senior cabinet minister Nitin Patel as Deputy Chief Minister.
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Vijay Rupani, Nitin Patel
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The decision was taken at a meeting of the BJP legislature party chaired by national party president Amit Shah with Union Minister Nitin Gadkari and MP Saroj Pandey as observers from the central leadership.
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Vijay Rupani, Nitin Patel, Nitin gadkari, Anandiben Patel, Amit Shah
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Anandiben Patel, the first woman Chief Minister of Gujarat, had announced her resignation in a surprise Facebook post on August 01, 2016.
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Vijay Rupani, Anandiben Patel
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The suave soft-spoken Vijay Rupani, a Jain-Baniya, is presently the party's Gujarat unit president, while Health Minister and State Government spokesperson Nitin Patel is a grassroots rustic Patel leader.
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Nitin Patel, Amit Shah
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The announcement of Rupani's name has come as a surprise since Nitin Patel was being presumed the final choice and had even started giving veiled interviews to local Gujarati news channels and by 4.45 p.m., local newspaper offices had started receiving email and fax with Nitin Patel's bio-data. Not only this, TV channels had even got Patel's wife on camera.
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Vijay Rupani
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