NEW DELHI: Senior Leader of Bharatiya Janata Party, Lal Krishna Advani has resigned from all his post just a day after the announcement for CM of Gujarat Narendra Modi to become chief of campaign committee of BJP. L K Advani was holding the post of the national executive, parliamentary board and the election committee. Advani sent a letter to party president Rajnath Singh informing about his resignation. This shows the internal groupism and dispute in BJP.
The leaders of BJP on Sunday appointed Narendra Modi as the chairman of its national election committee in a significant step towards complete compliance with the pressure from the cadre to declare the Gujarat CM the saffron candidate for prime ministership. The decision came in the face of resistance of stalwart L K Advani and marks Modi’s emergence as BJP’s pre-eminent leader at the expense of the former deputy PM and many others. Addressing party workers after the announcement of Modi’s elevation, BJP chief Rajnath Singh said that he could not have ignored the wishes of millions of party workers: an assertion that was read as a message to the old guard and Modi’s peers to come to terms with the inauguration of a new phase in BJP, where the Gujarat strongman will be playing the lead role, perhaps rivalling even the RSS’s infuence.
Bureau Report
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