BJP to announce name of new Gujarat CM this evening

Gandhinagar , August 5: Gujarat’s new Chief Minister will be announced this evening after the legislative party meeting, which will be attended by BJP national president Amit Shah and other central observers of the party.

The development was announced by state BJP president Vijay Rupani last evening after a meeting of senior party leaders at the residence of Amit Shah. Rupani said that all BJP MLAs including officer bearers of the sate BJP will also be present in the meeting.

Anandiben Patel tendered her resignation to the Governor on Wednesday. Governor O.P. Kohli has asked her to continue as the care taker chief minster till the alternate arrangements were in place.

Patel, who took charge as Gujarat’s first woman chief minister, sought to resign citing age issues in her Facebook post, and asked the BJP to relieve her from the coveted post.

Patel said that she had two months earlier sought to resign from the party to give “enough time to the new incumbent to prepare for important events like the upcoming ‘Vibrant Gujarat Summit’.

Her government was criticized for its handling of the outrage created by the public flogging of four Dalit men by self-styled cow protection groups.