Overview
- Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel installed a reconstituted council that now totals 26 ministers, close to the constitutional cap of 27.
- Nineteen newcomers were inducted and six ministers from the previous team were retained after their resignations were not accepted in the mass reset.
- Harsh Sanghavi, 40, was elevated to deputy chief minister and later allocated key portfolios including Home, Prohibition and Excise, Transport, and Law and Justice.
- First-term MLA Rivaba Jadeja was sworn in as minister of state and was assigned the Primary, Secondary and Adult Education portfolio in subsequent allocations.
- The lineup increases women to three and boosts tribal and Scheduled Caste representation with a strong Saurashtra presence, and former Congress leader Arjun Modhwadia entered as a cabinet minister.