Fri. Mar 29th, 2024

BJP Leader and Former Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Gegong Apnag on Tuesday announced his disassociation from the Saffron Party, saying Party is no longer addressing the real issues and has forgotten ‘morality and ethics’. In his resignation letter to BJP President Amit Shah, Apnag stated that “I am disappointed to see that the present day BJP is no longer following the principles of the late Vajpayeeji,”

He added that the Narendra Modi government is not addressing the ‘real issues’ and ignoring the ‘morality and ethics’. BJP has now just become a platform to gain power, said Former Arunachal Pradesh.

Assembly Polls in the Arunachal Pradesh is slated to take place along with general elections 2019. In his resignation letter to BJP chief Amit Shah, the former BJP Leader also mentioned his displeasure at the BJP declaring last October that Khandu will be the CM candidate in the coming elections. Polls in Andhra, Arunachal, Sikkim, Odisha likely to be clubbed with Lok Sabha’19

“The decision to put Shri Pema Khandu’s name as CM before the election is neither the norm or the tradition that a cadre-based party like the BJP had followed,” he wrote in the letter to Amit Shah. He also alleged that the party’s general secretary Ram Madhav who is in charge of the northeast did not allow many members to place their views in the state executive meeting of the party that held in November 2018.

Former CM also accused the Saffron party of retorting to ‘Dirty Tricks’ to gain power in 2014 after Arunachal Pradesh last state Polls. He said, as quoted by Hindustan Ties, “leadership used every dirty trick” to install Kalikho Pul as the Chief Minister and how the BJP leadership did not think of “morality and ethics by installing many more BJP governments in the northeast.”

In his resignation Letter, he appealed to Amit Shah and Prime Minister Narendra Modi to remember the teachings of Atal Bihari Vajpayee about ‘Raj Dharma’.

Gegong Apnag had in 2014, ahead of Assembly Polls, joined the Bhartiya Janta Party. He had unsuccessfully contested the State Polls 2014. He lost to Alo Libang who later joining the BJP and inducted as a cabinet minister in Pema Khandu government.

In December 2016, Arunachal Pradesh became the first state in the northeast to have a full-fledged BJP government when Khandu and 33 other MLAs of the People’s Party of Arunachal (PPA) joined the saffron party.

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