With the appointment of Jagdish Vishwakarma, third-term MLA from the Nikol constituency in Ahmedabad, as its new Gujarat president, the BJP has signalled both continuity and recalibration in the state’s fraught caste arithmetic and internal party dynamics. Succeeding Union Jal Shakti minister C.R. Patil in the top party post, Vishwakarma is also a minister of state in Gujarat for MSME, industries, roads & buildings, forest & environment, printing & stationery and salt industries.

His political journey can be traced back to his grassroots work as a booth in-charge in Ahmedabad’s Thakkarbapanagar constituency in 1998. He climbed up the party ranks via organisational roles, became convenor of the BJP’s industry cell and served as its city president for Ahmedabad before rising in state politi

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