Sanjay Singh resigns as Punjab AAP in-charge

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, April 27

Senior AAP leader and Punjab affairs in-charge Sanjay Singh and organisation-building head Durgesh Pathak have resigned from their posts.

मैंने पंजाब के प्रभारी पद से अपना इस्तीफ़ा राष्ट्रीय संयोजक @ArvindKejriwal जी को दे दिया है, दुर्गेश ने भी सह प्रभारी पद छोड़ा।

— Sanjay Singh AAP (@SanjayAzadSln) April 27, 2017

Singh wrote on Twitter:  "I have handed over my resignation from the post of in-charge to party national president Arvind Kejriwal. Durgesh has also resigned from his post."

The resignation phase started in the AAP with party convenor Dilip Pandey resigning following the MCD results.

Congress leaders like Ajay Maken, Gurudas Kamat and PC Chacko also announced their resignations from their posts after the results. 

The BJP has swept the polls to Delhi's three municipal corporations, North, East and South, winning 181 seats out of 270 seats.

The party succeeded in retaining power in the three civic bodies for the third consecutive term.

The AAP with 48 seats finished second, the Congress with 29 seats third.

Twelve seats went to others, including Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), Samajwadi Party (SP), Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) and Independents.

AAP leader Ashutosh dismissed the suggestions of Kejriwal's resignation over the party's defeat.

AAP MLA Alka Lamba also offered to resign from Chandni Chowk Assembly constituency on party's poor show. (With agencies inputs)