Days After BJP's MCD Election Loss, Adesh Gupta Resigns as Party's Delhi Chief
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New Delhi: Delhi Bharatiya Janata Party president Adesh Gupta resigned on Sunday, days after the party's defeat in the municipal corporation polls to the Aam Aadmi Party. He had been appointed to the position in June 2020.
The BJP's Delhi unit vice president Virendra Sachdeva has been appointed acting president.
The Aam Aadmi Party ended the BJP's 15-year-rule in the Municipal of Delhi (MCD) poll in results announced on Wednesday. The AAP won the elections with 134 seats, while the BJP bagged 104.
"The resignation of Adesh Gupta as Delhi BJP president is being accepted as per the direction of BJP national president Shri Jagat Prakash Nadda. Delhi unit vice president Virendra Sachdeva is being appointed working state unit chief till the next order," the BJP's national general secretary Arun Singh said in an order.
While some BJP leaders had hinted that the party would try and fight for the mayor's position despite losing the elections, Gupta had made it clear that the mayor would be from AAP. "The AAP has got the peoples' mandate, so they can have their mayor. We extend them good wishes," he had told PTI.
(With PTI inputs)
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