Lucknow, July 24 -- Uttar Pradesh governor Anandiben Patel (84) is set to complete seven years in office next week, breaking her own record for the longest tenure in the position.

After taking oath as the governor of Uttar Pradesh on July 29, 2019, Patel has been in focus for her concerns over various social causes and other issues, including growing cases of violence against women. Her advice to girls to steer clear of live-in relationships and her query over the serving of non-veg food in some medical institutes have caught attention in the recent past.

Patel has the longest tenure in the office of Uttar Pradesh governor in the pre and post-independence period.

She has already broken the record of Sir Maurice Garner Hallett, the only...