New Delhi: Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel on
Monday posted her resignation on Facebook and has requested the senior BJP
leadership ‘to relieve her from the post soon.’ Reports are that BJP has
accepted the resignation and is likely to announce Nitinbhai Patel’s name as
replacement. Nitinbhai is currently holding the chair of Gujarat’s health
minister.
The unique and most probably the first of its kind of
resignation, using a social media platform by an Indian politician has
unquestionably started several speculations. While many have speculated that
the decision by Anandiben was because of her age, which she too cited in her FB
post; the other group have assumed that consecutive failures in managing of two
major unrests in Gujarat may have forced her to declare a fullstop in her 30
year long journey.
Anandiben will soon turn 75 and was picked up as CM of
Gujarat on 2014 by Narendra Modi when the later became the Prime Minister.
“I had the opportunity to take up several responsibilities
as a worker in the Bhartiya Janata Party for the last 30 years. The party gave
me critical assignments in the organisation as well as in the government. Which
I consider my good fortune,” Patel said in her resignation.
Following the resignation of Anandiben, Delhi Chief Minister
and Aam Aadmi Party Chief Arvind Kejriwal immediately took to Twitter, claiming
responsibility of the move. His post said: “Gujarat fed up of Anandiben Patel’s
corrupt mal-administration. Huge support for AAP.”
Anandiben had joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in 1987 and
was serving the party since then. She was ‘inspired by its ideology, its
principles and discipline, and continue to abide by it.’
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