Gujarat ministers take oath: CM Patel keeps home, none from Rupani Cabinet finds place

NEW DELHI: An all-new Gujarat Cabinet was unveiled today in the capital Gandhinahgar, with new chief minister Bhupendra Patel keeping key departments of home, urban development with himself.
24 ministers were administered oath of office by governor Acharya Devvrat today.
Kanubhai Desai was allocated finance, and also energy and petrochemicals portfolios.
Chief minister Patel will hold the charge of general administration department, information and broadcast, industries, mines and minerals, capital projects, urban development, urban housing and narmada and ports, an official release said.
No deputy chief minister has been named.
Interestingly, no minister from the Vijay Rupani government has found a place in the Bhupendra Patel Cabinet. Former deputy chief minister Nitin Patel, who was touted as among the probables to take over the mantle from Rupani, has also not been retained.
Other ministers who were allocated portfolios on Thursday are:
Rajendra Trivedi: Revenue, law and justice, and legislative and parliamentary affairs
Jitubhai Vaghani: Education
Rishikesh Patel: Health and family welfare, medical education, water resources and water supply
Purnesh Modi: Roads and building, transport, civil aviation, tourism and pilgrimage development
Raghavji Patel: Agriculture and animal husbandry
Kiritsinh Rana: Environment, climate change, and printing and stationery departments
Naresh Patel: Tribal Development and food and civil supply
Pradip Parmar: Social justice and empowerment
Arjunsinh Chauhan: Rural development and rural housing
Harsh Sanghavi: MoS Home, disaster management and police housing, independent charge as MoS of sports, youth and cultural activities, nri, excise and prohibition, border security and prisons.
Jagdish Panchal (MoS): Cottage industries, cooperation, salt industry and protocol. he will also handle industries, forest and environment, climate change and printing and stationery.
Brijesh Merja (MoS): Independent charge- Labour and Employment, Panchayats, rural development and rural housing
Jitu Chaudhary (MoS): Fisheries (independent charge), Narmada, water resources and water supply
MoS Manishaben (MoS): Independent charge- women and child development, social justice and empowerment
Mukesh Patel (MoS): Agriculture and energy and petrochemicals
Nimisha Suthar (MoS): Tribal development, health and family welfare and medical education
Arvind Raiyani (MoS): Transport, Civil aviation, tourism and pilgrimage development
Kuber Dindor (MoS): Higher and technical education, legislative and parliamentary affairs
Kirtisinh Vaghela (MoS): Primary, secondary and adult education
Gajendrasinh Parmar (MoS): Food and civil supply
R C Makwana (MoS): Social justice and empowerment
Vinod Moradia (MoS): Urban development and urban housing
Deva Malam (MoS): Animal husbandry