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Gujarat Minister and OBC person Jagdish Vishwakarma was connected Saturday (October 4, 2025) declared the caller president of the Bharatiya Janata Party's authorities unit, succeeding Union Minister C.R. Paatil.
Union Minister Bhupender Yadav, the party's predetermination serviceman for the authorities BJP president polls, officially announced Mr. Vishwakarma's sanction astatine a gathering of elder authorities leaders and enactment workers astatine the enactment office 'Kamalam' successful Gandhinagar.
Mr. Vishwakarma (52) has succeeded Union Jal Shakti Minister and Lok Sabha MP from Navsari, C.R. Paatil, whose three-year tenure ended successful July 2023, and helium continued to clasp the post.
The three-time MLA from the Nikol spot of Ahmedabad was the lone campaigner to record information papers for the station connected Friday (October 3, 2025).
Mr. Vishwakarma is presently serving arsenic the Minister of State for co-operation, brackish industries, MSME, cottage, khadi and agrarian industries.
He had earlier served arsenic the president of the saffron party's Ahmedabad metropolis unit.
Before the function, Mr. Vishwakarma took retired a rally with a ample fig of enactment workers from his residence successful Ahmedabad's Thakkarbapanagar.
He expressed gratitude to the party's apical leadership, which gave him the work to service arsenic president of the Gujarat BJP.
"The BJP's imaginativeness for the country, its taste nationalist commitment, is made up of the champion citizens, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Amit Shah, and a agelong enactment of hardworking and dedicated workers," the caller president said.
He said, "The BJP, the world's largest party, is synonymous with development, trust, caller ideas, nationalist victory, and a self-reliant India. Our effort for a developed Gujarat and a beardown BJP indispensable beryllium cohesive, with the practice of each workers, to service the radical arsenic Team Gujarat BJP."
The spot that the radical of Gujarat person placed successful the BJP implicit the past 25 years has accrued this responsibility, and each BJP workers indispensable unrecorded up to these expectations, said Mr. Vishwakarma.
Speaking connected the occasion, Mr. Paatil said that nether his leadership, the BJP contested the 2022 assembly predetermination with assurance to triumph 182 seats, and managed to triumph 156 seats, and successful the 2024 Lok Sabha election, the enactment won 25 retired of 26 seats.
On some occasions, the enactment got a pb of implicit 1 crore votes arsenic against implicit 3 lakh-vote pb of the absorption parties, helium said.
"It whitethorn person been owed to the mistakes of booth-level workers and the shortcomings successful my enactment arsenic a enactment president, which led to a nonaccomplishment of 26 seats (in the 2022 assembly election). But we inactive managed to snatch much than 65 seats from the Congress. We won six seats for the archetypal clip successful the 2022 election," helium said.
"We are bittersweet astir not managing to triumph the remaining 3 seats that we ne'er won before, but we are assured of winning each 182 seats successful the coming election," helium said.
Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel said that PM Modi has stressed the value of technology, and its usage is important for progress.
"Our (outgoing) president, C.R. Paatil, has utilised exertion efficaciously successful the BJP. Jagdish Vishwakarma is besides a techno-savvy idiosyncratic and volition usage it efficaciously to assistance america scope our goals," helium said.
"Whether it's the authorities oregon the organisation, everyone successful the BJP has fulfilled immoderate work they person been given. Hence, the BJP has go a immense histrion due to the fact that of the mode Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, and J.P. Nadda person performed their duties," helium said.
At the function, Union Minister Yadav besides declared the names of 39 nationalist assembly members of the BJP who were elected unopposed.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Mr. Paatil, CM Patel, elder enactment leaders Vaju Vala, Parshottam Rupala, RC Faldu, etc, were among them.
