: What does the chief minister’s chair mean in post-Modi Gujarat? #IndiaNEWS In Gujarat, it is not difficult to come across people who speak glowingly of the Bharatiya Janata Party government. Yet,

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What does the chief minister’s chair mean in post-Modi Gujarat? #IndiaNEWS
In Gujarat, it is not difficult to come across people who speak glowingly of the Bharatiya Janata Party government. Yet, if you ask the same people what they think of the state’s chief minister, Bhupendra Patel, you would be lucky to get more than a nonchalant shrug. If you persist, the descriptors you will hear are not the most flattering: “Statue�, “rubber stamp�, “proxy�, et al. Since Narendra Modi left the state in 2014 to assume his prime ministerial role, Gujarat has seen three chief ministers in little over eight years. Modi’s first successor was Anandiben Patel who sat on the chair for two years, but quit before the government’s tenure was over. The next to take over, Vijay Rupani, completed five years over two terms, but had to make way for Bhupendra Patel in 2021, a year ahead of the next assembly election. This is in stark contrast to the political stability the state saw when Modi helmed it from 2001 to 2014. What does this frequent change of chief ministers say about post-Modi Gujarat? Is the BJP struggling to fill the vacuum left by him, making the state more vulnerable to an Opposition capture? After all, in 2017, the first elections...Read more

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