Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader from Uttarakhand, Ravinder Bajaj, submitted his resignation barely days before the Assembly election in the state.
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He resigned from the BJP’s primary membership, along with numerous other supporters. On Friday. He quit the party as the party refused to give him the ticket for assembly elections. Bajaj was said to be enraged that Arvind Pandey, a cabinet minister, was chosen as the party’s candidate.
Pandey represents the Gadarpur constituency in the Udham Singh Nagar district in the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly.
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On Thursday, the party had released the names of 59 candidates for the next assembly elections in which five women candidates are enlisted. The elections for the State Assembly will take place on February 14 and the results will be announced on March 10.
