Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel submits her resignation to Governor
Her successor will be named soon.
The BJP Parliamentary Board on Wednesday accepted Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel's resignation.
Union Minister Venkaiah Naidu told reporters: "Gujarat CM Anandiben Patel's resignation has been accepted."
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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