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Leh, (Ladakh), November 16, (Scoop News)-In a major jolt to Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) in Jammu and Kashmir, Member Parliament (MP) from Ladakh region, Thusptan Chhewang, on Thursday tendered his resignation from both the primary membership of party and as MP, citing health reasons.
“I am resigning from the primary membership of Bhartiya Janta Party on health grounds with immediate effect,” he mentioned in his resignation letter submitted to the state president of the party. Chhewang also announced his resignation from the parliament.
Political analysts, however, attributed his resignation to recent poll debacle in which Congress Party swept all 13 seats in Urban Local Bodies (ULB)-Leh elections. Chhewang had actively campaigned for his party during these elections. Earlier, Tsering Matop, Chief Executive Councillor (CEC) of Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council (LAHDC) had resigned from the post due to same reason after the BJP had suffered humiliating defeat at the hands of Congress Party.
In his resignation letter, widely circulated on social media, addressed to the state party president, Ravinder Raina, he said he was resigning from the primary membership of BJP on health grounds and had also submitted the same (resignation) to the Speaker of the Lok Sabha (lower house of the parliament).
The BJP, however, claimed that he had resigned from active politics because he wanted to join spiritualism. They said he had informed the party high command last year that he wanted to quit active politics and join spiritualism.
Chhewang was the first BJP leader who had won the parliament seat from the region after defeating Ghulam Raza, a Congress rebel, by 36 votes in 2014. Earlier in 2004, he was elected to parliament as an independent candidate. He was also founder member of Ladakh Union Territory Front (LUTF) in which all mainstream political parties dissolved their district units and merged to form the conglomerate.
However his political adversary said that Chhewang was feeling let down by his party high command by not fulfilling electoral promises like Union Territory (UT) status to region within six months after being elected to power in the Centre besides inclusion of Bhoti language in the 8th Schedule of the Constitution, opening of Kailash- Mansorvar pilgrimage from Ladakh.
Also he was not happy with the Central and State government’s approach towards Ladakh as the region was not given any representation in the union council of ministers. He also opposed the BJP’s decision to enter into coalition with Peoples Democratic Party in the formation of government in the state.
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