Raipur: In a blow to the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party in Chhattisgarh forward of the Assembly elections scheduled on the finish of the yr, senior tribal chief Nand Kumar Sai on Sunday resigned from the social gathering finish an affiliation of greater than 4 a long time. State BJP chief Arun Sao confirmed the event and mentioned the social gathering was unable to contact Sai at current however it will make all efforts to clear any misunderstanding he has.
Sai (77), a former two-time Lok Sabha MP and three-time MLA, had served because the social gathering’s state president in each Chhattisgarh and undivided Madhya Pradesh prior to now.
In his resignation letter, Sai mentioned his colleagues had been hatching conspiracies and levelling false allegations to tarnish his picture, which had left him deeply damage.
“I am resigning from the primary membership of the BJP and all posts. Whatever responsibilities the party gave me I discharged them with full dedication. I express my gratitude to the party for it,” he mentioned.
Chhattisgarh Congress communication wing chief Sushil Anand Shukla mentioned a “knowledgeable, polite and tolerant leader” like Sai leaving the social gathering was an indication that the BJP was humiliating and neglecting tribal leaders.
“If he has left the party it means BJP is neglecting this very big class (tribals), which Sai could not tolerate,” Shukla mentioned.
Sai, a outstanding tribal face of the social gathering who hails from north Chhattisgarh, was first elected as a Janata Party MLA in 1977 from the Tapkara seat (now in Jashpur district) in Madhya Pradesh.
In 1980, he was elected as BJP’s Raigarh district unit chief. He was elected as BJP MLA from Tapkara in 1985 and 1998 for the second and third time.
He was elected as Lok Sabha MP from Raigarh in 1989, 1996, and 2004 and Rajya Sabha MP in 2009 and 2010. Sai was Chhattisgarh BJP president from 2003-05, and MP BJP chief from 1997 to 2000.
He was the primary Leader of Opposition within the Chhattisgarh Assembly after the state was carved out from MP in November 2000. Sai was appointed because the chairperson of the National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST) in 2017.
