The Government of Gujarat, also known as Gujarat Government, is the supreme governing authority of the Indian state of Gujarat and its 33 districts. It consists of an executive of the legislators appointed by the Governor of Gujarat, a judiciary and of a publicly elected legislative body.
 | |
| Seat of Government | Gandhinagar |
|---|---|
| Legislative branch | |
| Assembly | |
| Speaker | Shankar Chaudhary |
| Members in Assembly | 182 |
| Executive branch | |
| Governor | Acharya Devvrat |
| Chief Minister | Bhupendrabhai Patel |
| Deputy Chief Minister | Vacant |
| Chief Secretary | Raj Kumar, IAS |
| Judiciary branch | |
| High Court | Gujarat High Court |
| Chief Justice | Sunita Agarwal |
Like other states in India, the head of state of Gujarat is the Governor, appointed by the President of India on the advice of the Central (Union) government. The governor's role is largely ceremonial, but the governor considers the legislative composition and appoints the Chief Minister, who is the main head of government, as chair of the Council of Ministers of Gujarat and is vested, in some instances alone but as to most executive powers by Council consensus with virtually all of the executive powers.
Gandhinagar, the capital of Gujarat, houses the relevant Vidhan Sabha (also known as the Gujarat Legislative Assembly) and the secretariat. The Gujarat High Court in Ahmedabad, has jurisdiction over the state as to state laws.[1]
The present legislative assembly is unicameral, consisting of 182 Members of the Legislative Assembly (M.L.As). Its term is 5 years, unless sooner dissolved.[2][3]
Executive
editCabinet Minister
edit| Portfolio | Minister | Took office | Left office | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chief Minister
Administration and Administrative Reforms | 12 December 2022 | Incumbent | BJP | ||
| Finance
Energy & Petrochemicals | 12 December 2022 | Incumbent | BJP | ||
| Industry Small, Micro and Medium Industries Kutir, Khadi and Village Industries Civil Aviation Labour and Employment | 12 December 2022 | Incumbent | BJP | ||
| Industry Health Family Welfare and Medical Education Higher and Technical Education Judiciary, Statutory and Parliamentary Affairs | 12 December 2022 | Incumbent | BJP | ||
| Agriculture Animal Husbandry and Cattle Breeding Fisheries Village Housing and Village Development | 12 December 2022 | Incumbent | BJP | ||
| Water Supply, Water Resource Food and Civil Supplies | 12 December 2022 | Incumbent | BJP | ||
| Social Justice and Empowerment Women and Child Development | 12 December 2022 | Incumbent | BJP | ||
| Tourism Culture Forest and Environment Climate Change | 12 December 2022 | Incumbent | BJP | ||
| Tribal Development Primary, Secondary and Old-age Education | 12 December 2022 | Incumbent | BJP | ||
Minister of State (Independent Charges)
edit| Portfolio | Minister | Took office | Left office | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sports and Youth Service Transport Civil Defence Home Guard Gram Rakshak Prisons Border Security Non-Resident Gujarati Development Voluntary Organisations Coordination | 12 December 2022 | Incumbent | BJP | ||
| Cooperation Salt Industry Printing and Writing Materials Protocol | 12 December 2022 | Incumbent | BJP | ||
Minister of State
edit| Portfolio | Minister | Took office | Left office | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home Police Housing Industry Cultural Activities | 12 December 2022 | Incumbent | BJP | ||
| Micro, Small and Medium Scale Industries Kutir, Khadi and Rural industries Civil Aviation | 12 December 2022 | Incumbent | BJP | ||
| Forest, Environmentand Climate Change Water Resources and Supply | 12 December 2022 | Incumbent | BJP | ||
| Parliamentary Affairs Primary, Secondary and Old-age Education Higher Education | 12 December 2022 | Incumbent | BJP | ||
| Food and Civil Supplies Social Defence and Empowerment | 12 December 2022 | Incumbent | BJP | ||
| Panchayat Agriculture | 12 December 2022 | Incumbent | BJP | ||
| Fisheries Animal Husbandry | 12 December 2022 | Incumbent | BJP | ||
| Tribal Development Rural Development Labour and Employment | 12 December 2022 | Incumbent | BJP | ||
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- [4]
Prime Ministers of Kathiawar/Saurashtra (1948-50)
edit| No | Portrait | Name | Constituency | Term of office | Assembly
(election) |
Party | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | U. N. Dhebar | Upleta | 15 February 1948 | 26 January 1950 | 1 year, 345 days | Interim | Indian National Congress | ||
Chief Ministers of Saurashtra (1950-56)
edit| No | Portrait | Name | Constituency | Term of office | Assembly
(election) |
Party | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | U. N. Dhebar | Upleta | 26 January 1950 | 19 December 1954 | 4 years, 327 days | Interim | Indian National Congress | ||
| 2nd | |||||||||
| 2 | Rasiklal Parikh | 19 December 1954 | 31 October 1956 | 1 year, 317 days | |||||
Chief Ministers of Gujarat
edit| No | Portrait | Name | Constituency | Term of office | Assembly
(election) |
Party[a] | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jivraj Mehta | Amreli | 1 May 1960 | 3 March 1962 | 2 years, 300 days | 1st/Interim (1957 election) |
Indian National Congress | ||
| 3 March 1962 | 25 February 1963 | 2nd (1962 election) | |||||||
| 2 | Balwantrai Mehta | Bhavnagar | 25 February 1963 | 19 September 1965 | 2 years, 206 days | ||||
| 3 | Hitendra Desai | Olpad | 19 September 1965 | 3 April 1967 | 5 years, 236 days | ||||
| 3 April 1967 | 12 November 1969 | 3rd (1967 election) | |||||||
| 12 November 1969 | 13 May 1971 | Indian National Congress (O) | |||||||
| – | Vacant[b] (President's rule) |
N/A | 13 May 1971 | 17 March 1972 | 309 days | Dissolved | N/A | ||
| 4 | Ghanshyam Oza | Dahegam | 17 March 1972 | 17 July 1973 | 1 year, 122 days | 4th (1972 election) |
Indian National Congress | ||
| 5 | Chimanbhai Patel | Sankheda | 17 July 1973 | 9 February 1974 | 207 days | ||||
| – | Vacant[b] (President's rule) |
N/A | 9 February 1974 | 18 June 1975 | 1 year, 129 days | Dissolved | N/A | ||
| 6 | Babubhai Patel | Sabarmati | 18 June 1975 | 12 March 1976 | 268 days | 5th (1975 election) |
Indian National Congress (O) | ||
| – | Vacant[b] (President's rule) |
N/A | 12 March 1976 | 24 December 1976 | 287 days | N/A | |||
| 7 | Madhav Singh Solanki | Bhadran | 24 December 1976 | 11 April 1977 | 108 days | Indian National Congress | |||
| (6) | Babubhai Patel | Sabarmati | 11 April 1977 | 17 February 1980 | 2 years, 312 days | Janata Party | |||
| – | Vacant[b] (President's rule) |
N/A | 17 February 1980 | 7 June 1980 | 111 days | N/A | |||
| (7) | Madhav Singh Solanki | Bhadran | 7 June 1980 | 10 March 1985 | 5 years, 29 days | 6th (1980 election) |
Indian National Congress | ||
| 11 March 1985 | 6 July 1985 | 7th | |||||||
| 8 | Amarsinh Chaudhary | Vyara | 6 July 1985 | 10 December 1989 | 4 years, 157 days | ||||
| (7) | Madhav Singh Solanki | Bhadran | 10 December 1989 | 4 March 1990 | 84 days | ||||
| (5) | Chimanbhai Patel | Sankheda | 4 March 1990 | 25 October 1990 | 3 years, 350 days | 8th (1990 election) |
Janata Dal | ||
| 25 October 1990 | 17 February 1994 | Indian National Congress | |||||||
| 9 | Chhabildas Mehta | Mahuva | 17 February 1994 | 14 March 1995 | 1 year, 25 days | ||||
| 10 | Keshubhai Patel | Visavadar | 14 March 1995 | 21 October 1995 | 221 days | 9th (1995 election) |
Bharatiya Janata Party | ||
| 11 | Suresh Mehta | Mandvi | 21 October 1995 | 19 September 1996 | 334 days | ||||
| – | Vacant[b] (President's rule) |
N/A | 19 September 1996 | 23 October 1996 | 34 days | N/A | |||
| 12 | Shankersinh Vaghela | Radhanpur | 23 October 1996 | 28 October 1997 | 1 year, 5 days | Rashtriya Janata Party | |||
| 13 | Dilip Parikh | Dhandhuka | 28 October 1997 | 4 March 1998 | 188 days | ||||
| (10) | Keshubhai Patel | Visavadar | 4 March 1998 | 7 October 2001 | 3 years, 217 days | 10th (1998 election) |
Bharatiya Janata Party | ||
| 14 | Narendra Modi | Rajkot West | 7 October 2001 | 22 December 2002 | 12 years, 227 days | ||||
| Maninagar | 22 December 2002 | 22 December 2007 | 11th (2002 election) | ||||||
| 23 December 2007 | 20 December 2012 | 12th (2007 election) | |||||||
| 20 December 2012 | 22 May 2014 | 13th (2012 election) | |||||||
| 15 | Anandiben Patel | Ghatlodia | 22 May 2014 | 7 August 2016 | 2 years, 77 days | ||||
| 16 | Vijay Rupani | Rajkot West | 7 August 2016 | 26 December 2017 | 5 years, 37 days | ||||
| 26 December 2017 | 13 September 2021 | 14th (2017 election) | |||||||
| 17 | Bhupendrabhai Patel | Ghatlodia | 13 September 2021 | 12 December 2022 | 3 years, 63 days | ||||
| 12 December 2022 | Incumbent | 15th (2022 election) | |||||||
Legislature
editThe Gujarat Legislative Assembly or Gujarat Vidhan Sabha is the unicameral legislature of the Indian state of Gujarat, in the state capital Gandhinagar. Presently, 182 members of the Legislative Assembly are directly elected from single-member constituencies (seats). It has a term of 5 years unless it is dissolved sooner. 13 constituencies are reserved for scheduled castes and 27 constituencies for scheduled tribes. From its majority party group or by way of a grand coalition cabinet of its prominent members, the state's Executive namely the Government of Gujarat is formed.
Since 1995, the Gujarat Legislative Assembly has been controlled by the Bharatiya Janata Party with an absolute majority in the House.Administration and Local governments
editLocal governments function at the basic level. It is the third level of government apart from union and state governments. It consists of panchayats in rural areas and municipalities in urban areas. They are elected directly or indirectly by the people. "Structurally Gujarat is divided into districts (Zila), Prant (subdivisions), Taluka (blocks) & villages. The state is divided into 33 districts, 122 prants, 248 talukas.[6] There are 08 municipal corporations, 156 municipalities and 14,273 Panchayats, for administrative purposes.'
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| Prant (Subdivisions) | Municipal Corporations (Mahanagar Palika) | Municipalities (Nagar Palika) | Town Council (Nagar Panchayat) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taluka (Block/Tehsil) | Wards | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
See also
editNotes
edit- ^ This column only names the chief minister's party. The state government he heads may be a complex coalition of several parties and independents; these are not listed here.
- ^ a b c d e President's rule may be imposed when the "government in a state is not able to function as per the Constitution", which often happens because no party or coalition has a majority in the assembly. When President's rule is in force in a state, its council of ministers stands dissolved. The office of chief minister thus lies vacant, and the administration is taken over by the governor, who functions on behalf of the central government. At times, the legislative assembly also stands dissolved.[5]
References
edit- ^ "Jurisdiction and Seats of Indian High Courts". Eastern Book Company. Retrieved 2008-05-12.
- ^ "Gujarat Legislative Assembly". Legislative Bodies in India. National Informatics Centre, Government of India. Retrieved 2008-05-12.
- ^ "Conversation with the living legend of law — Fali Sam Nariman". Bar and Bench.
- ^ "Bhupendra Patel Cabinet: Portfolios allotment to Ministers". DeshGujarat. 2022-12-12. Retrieved 2022-12-15.
- ^ "A dummy's guide to President's rule". Rediff.com. 15 March 2005.
- ^ "Administrative divisions of Gujarat".