Uttar Pradesh BJP president tenders resignation

March 08, 2012 12:59 pm | Updated 01:00 pm IST - Lucknow

Bharatiya Janata Party State president Surya Pratap Shahi on Thursday send his resignation to party national president Nitin Gadkari, owing moral responsibility for the electoral debacle in Uttar Pradesh elections.

Mr. Shahi has sent a letter to BJP national president Nitin Gadkari offering his resignation from the post of State president yesterday, party sources said here.

“I have written a personal letter to the national president and will not elaborate much on it,” Mr. Shahi told PTI.

The BJP which won 51 seats in the 2007 polls was reduced to 47 this time. Even Mr. Shahi, who contested from Pathardeva seat in Kushinagar, lost in the elections.

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