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Sanjay Joshi quits BJP
Friday June 08, 2012 08:48:12 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi:
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) general secretary Sanjay Joshi, a
bitter foe of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, Friday
resigned from the party, exposing divisions within its ranks.
Only days after mysterious posters appeared in Delhi and Ahmedabad
criticising his forced exit from the BJP national executive, Joshi
sent a letter to party president Nitin Gadkari.
"Sanjay Joshi has requested Nitin Gadkari to relieve him from the
party. The request has been accepted," BJP spokesman Prakash
Javadekar said in a brief statement here.
Javadekar refused to go into reasons for Joshi's sudden move but
said the resignation was sent Friday.
The otherwise media shy Joshi told journalists at his residence
here that he had decided to leave the BJP "due to Modi".
An activist with the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS), Joshi was
seconded to the BJP in 1988 when the party was growing on the
strength of the Ayodhya movement.
As his relations with Modi deteriorated, a sleaze CD apparently
featuring Joshi forced him to leave the BJP in 2005.
Gadkari rehabilitated him, inducting him into the national
executive and making him in charge of this year's Uttar Pradesh
election campaign.
This upset Modi, who stayed away from a BJP leadership meet in
October last year and the Uttar Pradesh campaign this year.
Gadkari had to eventually ask Modi to leave the national executive
to placate the Gujarat chief minister and to ensure's his
attendance in last month's BJP leadership meet in Mumbai.
The developments have caused divisions both within the BJP and RSS,
with one section critical of the way Joshi had been treated and
another saying that Modi had to be accommodated in view of the
coming Gujarat elections.
In Gujarat, Joshi is looked upon with awe by those still in the
BJP who are upset with Modi's style of functioning. Those who have
left the party in the state also because of Modi are considered
close to Joshi.
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