The Chief Minister of Uttarakhand Major-General (retd.) Bhuwan Chandra Khanduri has offered his resignation to the Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) president Rajnath Singh on Tuesday owning the moral responsibility of the party’s defeat in Uttarakhand, in recently concluded Lok Sabha general election.
This time, BJP could not win any seat out of five Lok Sabha seats under the Khanduri government that led him to offer for resignation.
According to party sources, Ex-Major-General Khanduri Tuesday met to a party president Rajnath Singh and senior leader Lal Krishna Advani in New Delhi and expressed his desire to resign.
The another sources has confirmed that he has been asked to continue his position until party does not select his successor.
Informing to media, Khanduri said, “I have had a word with the top leadership of the party. We could not win any seat out of the five in the state. Though it is a collective responsibility, I, being the head of the Government, take moral responsibility for the same. I have asked the Central Parliamentary Board of the BJP to decide.”
However, the BJP had won every bypoll and local level election that held in September last year, and party was considering a clear indication for the Lok Sabha votes too.
But this time, party showed worst performance and could not win even from its own consistencies too.
Congress clean swept all the five seats in the state.
Earlier two year before, after the assembly election, when BJP got a healthier victory in the state and it was expected that Bhagat Singh Koshiyari would be nominated as a Chief Minister of the state because of his strongest claim of the seat, a bitter controversy occurred when the top party authority nominated Khanduri ahead of Koshiyari.
Now, it is expected that Koshiyari can be nominated again for the past of CM, sources said.
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