Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel submitted her resignation letter to Governor Om Prakash Kohli on Monday. Earlier, Ms. Patel offered to resign as Chief Minister and asked the party high command to start the process of selecting a new Chief Minister.
In a letter to party president Amit Shah and State BJP chief Vijay Rupani, she has stated that she desires to step down as Chief Minister when she turns 75 on November 21. She has also posted the letter on her Facebook page. "I will place her letter before Parliamentary Board which will take the final decision", Shah said.
"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," Ms. 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," Ms. 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 to the Gujarat State Assembly are due in 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. Ms. Patel had to face some upsets as BJP recently fared badly in the rural civic body polls in December 2015 and the opposition Congress making gains at the cost of the saffron rival. She also had to face the fierce Patel community quota agitation, one of the factors which contributed to BJP losing in rural local bodies polls, while retaining urban areas.
Recently, the Dalit uprising after the Una trashing incident had also dented the image of the party.
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Gujarat CM offers to resign
By IndianMandarins - 2016-08-01 21:09:54
Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel submitted her resignation letter to Governor Om Prakash Kohli on Monday. Earlier, Ms. Patel offered to resign as Chief Minister and asked the party high command to start the process of selecting a new Chief Minister.
In a letter to party president Amit Shah and State BJP chief Vijay Rupani, she has stated that she desires to step down as Chief Minister when she turns 75 on November 21. She has also posted the letter on her Facebook page. "I will place her letter before Parliamentary Board which will take the final decision", Shah said.
"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," Ms. 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," Ms. 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 to the Gujarat State Assembly are due in 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. Ms. Patel had to face some upsets as BJP recently fared badly in the rural civic body polls in December 2015 and the opposition Congress making gains at the cost of the saffron rival. She also had to face the fierce Patel community quota agitation, one of the factors which contributed to BJP losing in rural local bodies polls, while retaining urban areas.
Recently, the Dalit uprising after the Una trashing incident had also dented the image of the party.
