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    Betting on Newbies

    Sep 25, 2021 4 minutes
    By Kiran D. Tare

    On September 12, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi chose first-time MLA Bhupendra Patel to lead Gujarat, little did anyone expect that the new chief minister would also have a nearly all-new cabinet. As expected, the thorough overhaul left stalwarts like Nitin Patel, Saurabh Patel and Pradeepsinh Jadeja furious at being dropped and led to an unprecedented scenario where the Gujarat Raj Bhavan had to postpone the swearing-in ceremony of the new council of ministers by a day, to September 16.

    Barring three, all ministers, including the CM, have no previous experience of governance. In 2001, too, the party had taken a

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