Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel, on Monday, offered to resign from the post of CM citing age reasons. This move comes ahead of the Assembly elections
Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel, on Monday, offered to resign from the post of CM citing age reasons. This move comes ahead of the Assembly elections.
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#WATCH Guj CM Anandiben Patel says she will soon be 75 years of age, offers to resign from CM post citing the same.https://t.co/c00za19tW3
— ANI (@ANI_news) August 1, 2016
Here's how social media reacted to it
Anandiben was behaving like Anandi of Balika Vadhu! No independent decision taking authority! #AnandibenPatel
— Yashveer Jain (@yjthere) August 1, 2016
Wanted: Replacement for #AnandibenPatel.
— lindsay pereira (@lindsaypereira) August 1, 2016
Education not mandatory.
Intelligence frowned upon.
Criminal cases welcome.
MUST LIKE COWS.
#AnandibenPatel resigns. Actually it was needed .
— Aashu (@beingaashu) August 1, 2016
Respect for #anandibenpatel fr resigning.Wish other politicians hve moral responsibility to resign by 75(when they feel they r unfit 2 lead)
— Ajay Dubey (@AjayKumarDubey) August 1, 2016
. @ArvindKejriwal Anandiben resigned but still you will continue to entertain people of Delhi - No shame ?. #AnandibenPatel
— ThakurSaab. (@HathwalaThakur) August 1, 2016
A cow will be next CM of Gujrat after #AnandibenPatel - Gurakshak BJP wing @BhayankarLog
— Tweet of Aliens (@hamka_leni_hai) August 1, 2016
Selecting 1 from Next 3 CM candidates is like selecting between Donald Trump & Hilary Clinton #AnandibenPatel
— Good Doctor (@iamthemaulik) August 1, 2016
#Kejriwal sacking a minister on live TV is nautanki but #AnandibenPatel offering to resign on Facebook is owning up to responsibilities! u00f0u009fu0098u0095
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Patel, who will turn 75 on November 21, also said the BJP needed a fresh face in the state before the elections due next year. "For the last some time there has been a tradition in the party that those who attain the age of 75, voluntarily retires from the post. I will attain the age of 75 in November," the state's first woman chief minister, who succeeded Narendra Modi on May 22, 2014, said in a Facebook post.
"Two months ago I had requested the party to relieve me from the post and today also through this letter, I request the party to relieve me of the post," Patel said.
"I am asking the party to relieve me two months in advance as the new chief minister will require the time to work, when the state is going to face elections in 2017 and an important event like Vibrant Gujarat Summit to be held in January," Patel said.
"It (the rule of 75) is a good thing and it will give a chance to young leaders to come up," she added. Elections in the state are due in the later part of 2017.
The unwritten convention in the party, set by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in recent times has been that those attaining the age of 75 have to quit the post. Patel had to faced some upsets as BJP recently fared badly in the rural civic bodies polls in December 2015 and the opposition Congress making gains at the cost of the saffron rival.
Under the leadership of Patel, who has been a minister in the BJP government since 1998 and CM from 2014, the BJP for the first time in the post-Narendra Modi era in Gujarat is facing a tough challenge from its opponents.
Under the leadership of Patel, who has been a minister in the BJP government since 1998 and CM from 2014, the BJP for the first time in the post-Narendra Modi era in Gujarat is facing a tough challenge from its opponents.
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