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Three UP BJP leaders resign after elevation of Rajnath's son
Monday January 23, 2012 08:11:25 AM,
IANS
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Lucknow: The
infighting within Bhartiya Janata Party's (BJP) Uttar Pradesh
again came to the fore here Sunday, when three functionaries
resigned from their positions to protest against appointment of
former party chief Rajnath Singh's son Pankaj as a general
secretary.
"We are at least ten years senior to Pankaj in the party and we
have made out way up the ladder ; and here is this lad being
imposed upon us from the top. This is not acceptable to us,"
declared state BJP secretary Daya Shankar Singh, who along with
two of his co-secretaries, Santosh Singh and Ashwini Tyagi, have
put in their papers in strong protest against the move.
Singh and his two colleagues were understood to have shot off a
joint letter off protest to state BJP chief Surya Pratap Shahi
with a copy to national president Nitin Gadkari.
The letter not only points out how the three office-bearers had
struggled to rise to the state secretary level, but have also
sought to draw the attention of the party leadership to what
Gadkari has himself been telling people about his own rise from
the grassroots level.
Daya Shankar Singh told IANS: "Gadkari ji has time and again told
us that he made his way up through the mill - right from pasting
posters on the wall. We would like to know when did Pankaj Singh
ever do any work in the party."
Pankaj Singh was given the position of the party general secretary
as compensation after he was denied a ticket for contesting next
month's state assembly election.
Having failed to have his way with Gadkari for a ticket for his
son, Rajnath Singh was understood to have moved heaven and earth
to get Pankaj installed on a key position in the party
organisation. The move is seen as a major showdown for Rajnath
Singh, who had also been state chief minister as well as an union
minister in the past.
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