Ahmedabad, 24 May 2012

In a dramatic development just before the beginning of BJP’s national executive meeting in Mumbai, party man Sanjay Joshi has resigned from the national executive, said PTI quoting sources. Joshi has reportedly submitted his resignation to party president Nitin Gadkari.

Sanjay Joshi, once an organizational in-charge of BJP in Gujarat was later promoted to Delhi and later expelled from the party after a sex CD featuring him came to limelight.

However in recent past he was inducted back to the party by party president Nitin Gadkari ahead of Uttar Pradesh assembly election.

Reportedly unhappy with Joshi’s induction, Narendra Modi skipped BJP’s national executive meeting in New Delhi last year. Then Modi also didn’t campaign for party in state assembly polls in north India and Goa. On the other hand, Sanjay Joshi who was made election in-charge in Uttar Pradesh, couldn’t bring expected result. Amid reports that Modi would possibly avoid BJP’s national executive meeting in Mumbai over Sanjay Joshi issue, Joshi has resigned from the national executive ahead of the meeting.

It seems the party finally weighed Modi against Sanjay Joshi and found Sanjay Joshi too light weight against heavyweight Modi who is all set to become party’s Prime ministerial candidate for Lok Sabha poll 2014. Shri Joshi will continue to become a party man. It seems he will have to work in a corner till the time Modi’s sun is high in the Indian political sky.

Modi in Mumbai

Chief Minister Narendra Modi today reached Mumbai and participated in BJP national executive. The national executive meeting of BJP started at 11.00 am in Mumbai, but as Chief Minister Modi had allotted morning time to Udaipur based organization for celebration of Rana Pratap’s birth anniversary two months back, he was in Udaipur in the morning. Modi reached Mumbai by air from Udaipur and participated in party’s national executive meet after 4.00 pm.

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