POLITY-DAILY-NEWS-02-08-2016
About two months ahead of her 75th birthday, Anandiben
Patel has offered to step down as Gujarat’s first woman chief minister. In a
social media post, she asked the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leadership to
relieve her of the top responsibility in the state. Citing examples of party
members who have stepped down after attaining the age of 75, Anandiben Patel
said she was following the same. “Since sometime, senior party
