Twitter Trolls Anandiben, Maybe Facebook Needs a ‘Resign’ Button?

Champion for Digital India, Anandiben resigned over Facebook and the BJP hasn’t liked her post yet...

Anandiben Patel has offered to resign from the post of Chief Minister of Gujarat. She took to Facebook to explain the reason she wanted to discontinue.

As Chief Minister of Gujarat she has been receiving a lot of flak, with all the controversies that have engulfed the state. Patel already faced an uphill task of succeeding Narendra Modi in the region, but the in-party fighting and the mass criticism against her made her preempt that she might be removed.

There has been a tradition in the party that those who reach the age of 75, voluntarily retire from their posts. I will attain the age of 75 in November. This tradition is a good thing and it will give a chance to young leaders to come up.

Anandiben Patel in her resignation letter

The BJP’s ministers have been taking Modi’s Digital India campaign rather too seriously and have been taking to social media to express everything they feel. Twitterati have cottoned on to this and had some fun dissecting Anandiben’s use of Facebook to issue her resignation.

So one thing's been proven. The fact that Anandiben resigned on Facebook means Gujarat has good internet signal strength. Log in to log out.

— SUHEL SETH (@suhelseth) August 1, 2016

New trend: resign via Facebook. Next - take oath of office via Twitter. Cabinet meeting- whatsapp 😃 https://t.co/h6PepeusEJ

— Smita Prakash (@smitaprakash) August 1, 2016

A CM posts her political intent to quit on Facebook.Anandiben Patel does not know Modi Ji 's or Amit Shah's phone number? #InternalDemocracy

— Sanjay Jha (@JhaSanjay) August 1, 2016

For every like on Anandiben Patel's resignation on Facebook, Microsoft will donate $1 to cancer research. For every share, $10. Please RT.

— Madhu Menon (@madmanweb) August 1, 2016

The trend of biggest, first-person news-breaks on social media continues: latest being Anandiben Patel's resignation on Facebook

— Bharti Jain (@bhartijainTOI) August 1, 2016

Gujarat CM Anandiben Patel posted her resignation on Facebook. Arvind Kejriwal Liked it

— Joy (@Joydas) August 1, 2016

PM Modi's #digitalindia gets a boom after Gujarat CM Anandiben Patel offers resignation Gia Facebook!

— आशुतोष (@ashu3page) August 1, 2016

Will wait for someone to snapchat their resignation. Easy to take it back also. https://t.co/NOgPJVXrGe

— Vijay Nair (@vijay_nair) August 1, 2016

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