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Yashwant demands Gadkari’s resignation
The BJP on Tuesday deemed as “inappropriate” the remarks by senior leader Yashwant Sinha asking party chief Nitin Gadkari to quit in the wake of controversies surrounding him. The BJP also asked Sinha to reconsider his stand of going public with his sentiments when every forum of the party was available to him being a senior leader of the party.
“Yashwant Sinha is a senior leader of the party and all forums of the party are available to him. The party considers the statement issued by Sinha (demanding the resignation) as inappropriate. The party would appeal to him to reconsider his stand,” BJP spokesman Ravishankar Prasad said.
The party distancing itself from Sinha came after he stepped up pressure on Gadkari to quit, a demand earlier expressed by Rajya Sabha MP Ram Jethmalani and party’s national executive member Jagadish Shettigar. Gadkari is in the midst of a controversy over alleged dubious investment in his companies.
“Whether our party president is guilty or not is not the issue today. The issue is that all of us in public life should be beyond reproach. We have no right to let down the people of India this is what we have done by taking the easy way out through a questionable method of self-certification,” Sinha told PTI.
The BJP on Tuesday deemed as “inappropriate” the remarks by senior leader Yashwant Sinha asking party chief Nitin Gadkari to quit in the wake of controversies surrounding him. The BJP also asked Sinha to reconsider his stand of going public with his sentiments when every forum of the party was available to him being a senior leader of the party.
“Yashwant Sinha is a senior leader of the party and all forums of the party are available to him. The party considers the statement issued by Sinha (demanding the resignation) as inappropriate. The party would appeal to him to reconsider his stand,” BJP spokesman Ravishankar Prasad said.
The party distancing itself from Sinha came after he stepped up pressure on Gadkari to quit, a demand earlier expressed by Rajya Sabha MP Ram Jethmalani and party’s national executive member Jagadish Shettigar. Gadkari is in the midst of a controversy over alleged dubious investment in his companies.
“Whether our party president is guilty or not is not the issue today. The issue is that all of us in public life should be beyond reproach. We have no right to let down the people of India this is what we have done by taking the easy way out through a questionable method of self-certification,” Sinha told PTI.
