Government of Gujarat
Gujarāta sarakāra

Seat of Government	Gandhinagar
Legislative branch
Assembly	Gujarat Legislative Assembly
Speaker	Shankar Chaudhary
Members in Assembly	182
Executive branch
Governor	Acharya Devvrat
Chief Minister	Bhupendrabhai Patel
Deputy Chief Minister	Vacant
Chief Secretary	Raj Kumar, IAS
Judiciary branch
High Court	Gujarat High Court
Chief Justice	Sunita Agarwal

The Government of Gujarat, also known as Gujarat Government, is the supreme governing authority of the Indian state of Gujarat and its 33 districts. It consists of an executive of the legislators appointed by the Governor of Gujarat, a judiciary and of a publicly elected legislative body.

Like other states in India, the head of state of Gujarat is the Governor, appointed by the President of India on the advice of the Central (Union) government. The governor's role is largely ceremonial, but the governor considers the legislative composition and appoints the Chief Minister, who is the main head of government, as chair of the Council of Ministers of Gujarat and is vested, in some instances alone but as to most executive powers by Council consensus with virtually all of the executive powers.

Gandhinagar, the capital of Gujarat, houses the relevant Vidhan Sabha (also known as the Gujarat Legislative Assembly) and the secretariat. The Gujarat High Court in Ahmedabad, has jurisdiction over the state as to state laws.^[1]

The present legislative assembly is unicameral, consisting of 182 Members of the Legislative Assembly (M.L.As). Its term is 5 years, unless sooner dissolved.^[2][3]

Executive

Cabinet Minister

Minister of State (Independent Charges)

Minister of State

Sources

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Prime Ministers of Kathiawar/Saurashtra (1948-50)

No	Portrait	Name	Constituency	Term of office			Assembly (election)	Party
1		U. N. Dhebar		15 February 1948	26 January 1950	1 year, 345 days	Interim	Indian National Congress

Chief Ministers of Saurashtra (1950-56)

No	Portrait	Name	Constituency	Term of office			Assembly (election)	Party
1		U. N. Dhebar		26 January 1950	19 December 1954	4 years, 327 days	Interim	Indian National Congress
							2nd (1952 election)
2		Rasiklal Parikh		19 December 1954	31 October 1956	1 year, 317 days

Chief Ministers of Gujarat

No	Portrait	Name	Constituency	Term of office			Assembly (election)	Party[a]
1		Jivraj Mehta	Amreli	1 May 1960	3 March 1962	2 years, 300 days	1st/Interim (1957 election)	Indian National Congress
				3 March 1962	25 February 1963		2nd (1962 election)
2		Balwantrai Mehta	Bhavnagar	25 February 1963	19 September 1965	2 years, 206 days
3		Hitendra Desai	Olpad	19 September 1965	3 April 1967	5 years, 245 days
				3 April 1967	12 November 1969		3rd (1967 election)
				12 November 1969	12 May 1971			Indian National Congress (O)
–		Vacant[b] (President's rule)	N/A	13 May 1971	17 March 1972	309 days	Dissolved	N/A
4		Ghanshyam Oza	Dahegam	17 March 1972	17 July 1973	1 year, 122 days	4th (1972 election)	Indian National Congress
5		Chimanbhai Patel	Sankheda	17 July 1973	9 February 1974	207 days
–		Vacant[b] (President's rule)	N/A	9 February 1974	18 June 1975	1 year, 129 days	Dissolved	N/A
6		Babubhai Patel	Sabarmati	18 June 1975	12 March 1976	268 days	5th (1975 election)	Indian National Congress (O)
–		Vacant[b] (President's rule)	N/A	12 March 1976	24 December 1976	287 days		N/A
7		Madhav Singh Solanki	Bhadran	24 December 1976	10 April 1977	107 days		Indian National Congress
(6)		Babubhai Patel	Sabarmati	11 April 1977	17 February 1980	2 years, 312 days		Janata Party
–		Vacant[b] (President's rule)	N/A	17 February 1980	6 June 1980	110 days		N/A
(7)		Madhav Singh Solanki	Bhadran	7 June 1980	10 March 1985	5 years, 29 days	6th (1980 election)	Indian National Congress
				11 March 1985	6 July 1985		7th (1985 election)
8		Amarsinh Chaudhary	Vyara	6 July 1985	9 December 1989	4 years, 156 days
(7)		Madhav Singh Solanki	Bhadran	10 December 1989	3 March 1990	83 days
(5)		Chimanbhai Patel	Sankheda	4 March 1990	25 October 1990	3 years, 350 days	8th (1990 election)	Janata Dal
				25 October 1990	17 February 1994			Indian National Congress
9		Chhabildas Mehta	Mahuva	17 February 1994	13 March 1995	1 year, 24 days
10		Keshubhai Patel	Visavadar	14 March 1995	21 October 1995	221 days	9th (1995 election)	Bharatiya Janata Party
11		Suresh Mehta	Mandvi	21 October 1995	19 September 1996	334 days
–		Vacant[b] (President's rule)	N/A	19 September 1996	23 October 1996	27 days		N/A
12		Shankersinh Vaghela	Radhanpur	23 October 1996	27 October 1997	1 year, 4 days		Rashtriya Janata Party
13		Dilip Parikh	Dhandhuka	28 October 1997	4 March 1998	188 days
(10)		Keshubhai Patel	Visavadar	4 March 1998	6 October 2001	3 years, 216 days	10th (1998 election)	Bharatiya Janata Party
14		Narendra Modi	Rajkot West	7 October 2001	22 December 2002	12 years, 227 days
			Maninagar	22 December 2002	22 December 2007		11th (2002 election)
				23 December 2007	20 December 2012		12th (2007 election)
				20 December 2012	22 May 2014		13th (2012 election)
15		Anandiben Patel	Ghatlodia	22 May 2014	7 August 2016	2 years, 77 days
16		Vijay Rupani	Rajkot West	7 August 2016	26 December 2017	5 years, 37 days
				26 December 2017	13 September 2021		14th (2017 election)
17		Bhupendrabhai Patel	Ghatlodia	13 September 2021	12 December 2022	2 years, 195 days
				12 December 2022	Incumbent		15th (2022 election)

Legislature

Administration and Local governments

Local governments function at the basic level. It is the third level of government apart from union and state governments. It consists of panchayats in rural areas and municipalities in urban areas. They are elected directly or indirectly by the people. "Structurally Gujarat is divided into districts (Zila), Prant (subdivisions), Taluka (blocks) & villages. The state is divided into 33 districts, 122 prants, 248 talukas.^[6] There are 08 municipal corporations, 156 municipalities and 14,273 Panchayats, for administrative purposes.'