Decoding the Rise of Harsh Sanghavi: Gujarat’s New Deputy Chief Minister October 18, 2025

Japan K Pathak, Gandhinagar | For many — barring a few of us journalists — the elevation of Harsh Sanghavi, the then Minister of State in Bhupendra Patel’s outgoing Cabinet, to the post of Deputy Chief Minister of Gujarat came as a surprise during the swearing-in ceremony at Mahatma Mandir on Friday.

At 40, Sanghavi joins a rare league. The last time Gujarat saw such a young Deputy Chief Minister was in 1994, when Narhari Amin assumed the post at 39 — a product of political tussles between Janata Dal (Gujarat) and Congress factions. Sanghavi’s rise, however, is of a different kind: earned, not engineered. It is a recognition of merit, not a by-product of political arithmetic or factional compromise

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