BJP accepts Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel's resignation
Union Minister Venkaiah Naidu told reporters: "Gujarat CM Anandiben Patel's resignation has been accepted."
He said Patel will handover her resignation to the Governor on Wednesday.
Naidu said her successor will be named soon.
He denied that BJP President Amit Shah is in race to be the next Chief Minister of the state.
"BJP leaders want Amit Shah to remain as the party president," Naidu said.
Just a year before the state will elect a new Assembly, Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel on Monday resigned from her post.
She was serving the state since Prime Minister Narendra Modi resigned as the Chief Minister of Gujarat in 2014.
Modi became the PM of the country following his BJP's landslide victory in the Lok Sabha polls in 2014. The Congress government at the Centre was completely uprooted from power after ruled the nation for 10 years.
Patel will turn 75 in November this year.
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