New Delhi: Ahead of 2019 Lok Sabha elections, after the resignation of BJP MP Upendra Kushwaha and Savitri Bhai Phule from the ruling party, on Tuesday senior BJP leader and the former Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh Gegong Apang has resigned from Bhartiya Janta Party saying “the saffron party is not following the principles of principles.”
On Tuesday, Apang took to Twitter to share the copy letter he send to BJP chief, Amit Shah mentioning the detailed suffocation he was undergoing in the party.
Expressing his anguish against the ruling party, the outgoing leader claimed that the saffron party as a platform to seek power.
“It serves a leadership which hates the decentralisation of democratic decision making and no longer believes that party founder by, for and of the cadre is only seeking to capture power”, reads Apang letter to BJP chief.
Apang also blamed general secretory Ram Madhavan for not allowing office bearers to express their views during party meetings.
In the letter he mentioned, “Even in state-level executive committee meetings held on 10-11 November in 2018 at Pasighat, General Secretary of the Party Ram Madhav did not allow many members and office bearers to place thier views before the party cadre.”
However, Apang resignation can be seen as a major loss to the ruling party in Arunachal Pradesh.
