Ashok Arora quits as state party chief

tish Sharma

Tribune News Service

Kurukshetra, May 24

A day after his party suffered a humiliating defeat in all 10 Lok Sabha seats in Haryana, state Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) president Ashok Arora resigned from the post on Friday.

In his resignation letter to party supremo and former Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala, Arora said he was resigning as the state unit chief in view of the severe drubbing the party received at the hustings.

“The national president is in jail. So, the responsibility of the party was on me. Maybe, I couldn’t play my part well. I take the responsibility of the party’s poor show in the Lok Sabha polls and I resign from my post on moral grounds,” he told The Tribune. The ruling BJP swept all 10 seats in the state, while the INLD was decimated and its candidates lost security deposits.