Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel on Monday, 8 June 2026, registered on a dedicated campaign website to participate in the Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam tree plantation drive and pledged to personally nurture the tree he plants. The Chief Minister also urged all residents of the Gandhinagar Lok Sabha constituency to register and join the effort to make the region the greenest in the country.

Context

In his post, CM Patel wrote in Gujarati: 'મેં આજે આ વેબસાઈટ પર વૃક્ષારોપણ કરવા રજીસ્ટ્રેશન કરાવ્યું' ['I registered today on this website for tree plantation'] and added that he also took a pledge to care for the tree he plants. He called on fellow citizens to join collectively, saying: 'Let us all make a shared effort to protect nature and make Gandhinagar Lok Sabha, our state, and our country greener, cleaner, and more beautiful.'

The campaign website gandhinagarloksabha.in has been set up specifically to enrol residents of the Gandhinagar Lok Sabha constituency in the drive.

Policy Backdrop

The Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam campaign was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on World Environment Day, 5 June 2024, encouraging citizens across India to plant a tree in their mother's name as a tribute and an environmental act. The initiative builds on a long lineage of centrally promoted afforestation programmes, including the annual Van Mahotsav drives and state-level green missions that link local plantation targets to broader national environmental goals.

Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah, who represents the Gandhinagar Lok Sabha seat, has set an ambition to make the constituency the greenest in the country under this campaign, prompting the creation of the dedicated registration portal to mobilise local participation.

Stakeholders and Impact

The primary beneficiaries of the drive are residents of the Gandhinagar Lok Sabha constituency in Gujarat, who are being invited to register, plant, and pledge to maintain trees in their localities. By participating publicly, CM Patel signals the state government's endorsement of the campaign and lends political visibility to citizen-level action.

The broader pattern reflects the BJP government's approach of using voluntary citizen participation to supplement formal afforestation targets — combining symbolic gestures by senior leaders with grassroots mobilisation through digital platforms.

What's Next

Attention will now turn to registration numbers and reported plantation outcomes through the gandhinagarloksabha.in portal, as well as any state-level reporting on tree survival rates across the constituency. The campaign's credibility will ultimately rest on follow-through — whether the trees planted are maintained over time — a metric that environmental observers and civic groups are likely to track.