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Delhi BJP Chief Manoj Tiwari Offers Resignation Over Poll Results; Party Refuses To Accept It
Swarajya Staff
Feb 12, 2020, 05:03 PM | Updated 05:03 PM IST
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Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)'s Delhi unit chief Manoj Tiwari offered to resign from his post on Wednesday (12 February), just a day after the BJP faced a humiliating defeat at the hands of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Delhi Assembly polls. The party, however, has refused to accept his resignation.
While it may be a reprieve for Tiwari, whose removal was being talked about ever since Tuesday's election debacle, the BJP leadership is believed to be not in favour of a change of guard at the moment.
Informed sources told IANS that while refusing to accept Tiwari's resignation, which was addressed to BJP President J P Nadda, the party leadership is said to have told Tiwari that a change of guard in Delhi will take place as and when "structural changes" are made in BJP's Delhi unit.
The Delhi BJP unit has often been a problematic one because of the internal strife. While Vijay Goel has one set of followers, Tiwari has another set and so does Harsh Vardhan.
There have been demands within the party to remove Tiwari from the top post in Delhi for more than a year now. But then BJP President Amit Shah refused to entertain such demands with Delhi elections in mind, where Purvanchalis constitute a sizeable number. Tiwari often flaunts his Purvanchali origin as his political USP.
But after BJP managed to win just eight seats as against AAP's 62 on Tuesday, the party may seriously think of a complete rejig of the Delhi unit.
In fact, BJP President Nadda has convened a meeting on Wednesday evening to review Delhi poll results and to fix accountability.
(With inputs from IANS)
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