India seems truly to have arrived into the digital age. Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel resigned via a Facebook post yesterday; a bizarre event that is strangely representative of the way we live; the way we have virtual life that is lived online parallel to our real lives. Here is all you need to know about the resignation of CM Anandiben Patel and about the trending hashtag #भगोड़ीAnandiben.
Her post was in Guajarati and she said that she wanted to be relieved of her post owning to her age (she will be 75 in November). She said that she had asked to be relieved of her post two months ago and that she was reiterating that request via her Facebook post.
Senior journalist Shekhar Gupta thought that the resignation-via-Facebook was actually great publicity for Facebook seeing that a leader of a state with 600 lakh citizens, choose this platform to resign.
This tweet referred to the net savvy seniors in our ruling dispensation as well as the recent variations to the ‘Like’ button that we now use on Facebook.
So if a resignation can be tendered via a Facebook post, why not accept it the same way, thought one Twitterer. Other helpful suggestions included the BJP page unfriending Anandiben.
After a Facebook resignation, there were these helpful suggestions for conducting cabinet meetings and taking the oath of office.
Political commentator and probably one of the most opinionated Indians, Suhel Seth had these tongue in cheek views to share.
While much of Twitter erupted in gleeful reaction to the resignation as well as the unique mode of tendering it, by creating and propogating the #भगोड़ीAnandiben hashtag.
According to news reports it is likely that Anadiben Patel may now be appointed as Governor of Punjab.
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