MUMBAI|AHMEDABAD: Gujarat chief minister Anandiben Patel suddenly finds herself caught between a rock and a hard place in the strife-ridden politics of the state. Her party bosses have purportedly given her three months to resolve the Patidar agitation or quit.According to sources in the RSS and BJP, the party has given Patel the message that the Patel community’s seven-month-old agitation for reservations in government jobs has dragged on for too long and needs to be quelled now to prevent longterm damage to the party.The warning to the CM to shape up or ship out comes after the recent drubbing in the recent local bodies polls, where the Congress wrested 23 out of the 31 district panchayats and 113 out of the 193 taluka panchayats from the BJP."The feedback from Gujarat was very worrying. Even the most-optimistic projections by our people in Gujarat have said that if things remain the same, it will be tough to remain in power during the assembly polls in 2017. It won’t be just an electoral set back. PM Narendra Modi is from Gujarat and it would give everyone a handle to beat Modi with. Gujarat just can’t be lost," said a BJP leader.BJP leaders said that in the last few days they have seen hectic parleys between those close to Anandiben Patel and the Patel community. "Talks used to go on earlier too, but they have assumed urgency, not seen earlier. Every leader within the Patel community is being tapped, coaxed and cajoled to find a way out to end the crisis," said a BJP leader in the state.Saurashtra’s Bharatiya Kisan Sangh leader Praful Senjaliya, a Patidar, told ET that Gujarat BJP president RC Faldu , senior Cabinet minister Nitin Patel , Rajya Sabha MP Mansukh Mandavia and others are now reaching out to the community to find a solution. "Some of the BJP leaders had initially fuelled the movement to topple Anandiben but now that it has gone out of their hands and the party has suffered so badly in the local body polls, the state leadership has been told to sort this out fast," Senjaliya said, adding that senior members of the community are being reached out.Team Anandiben Patel has sought the help of Jeram Patel, vice-president of Shri Umiya Mataji Sansthan, Sidsar to mediate between the community and the government. The Umiya Maata diety is greatly revered by the Patel community and the temple trust of Umiya Mata enjoys enormous amount of clout in the Patel community. It was the support of Umiya Mata Temple authorities early last year that added considerable momentum to Hardik Patel’s demand for reservations for his community.