Gujarat minister Jagdish Vishwakarma was Saturday declared the new president of the BJP state unit, succeeding Union Minister C R Patil.

Thanking the party leadership, Vishwakarma said that his true identity is “not as a state president, but as the worker”.

At BJP headquarters in Gandhinagar , as Vishwakarma formally took charge, Patil said “I regret that we could not win 182 seats and stopped at 156. In the by elections, we won six more seats and reached 162… In Lok Sabha too, despite winning 26 of 26 seats on two occasions (earlier), during my presidency we lost one seat (in 2024) and I accept the responsibility of that defeat.”

Under Patil’s leadership, Gujarat BJP saw a historic victory in 2022, surpassing Congress tally of winning 149 of 182 seats in 1980s.

Vishwakarma thanked

See Full Page