Sinha quits BJP positions, party accepts resignation (Lead)

July 28th, 2009 SRINAGAR - Jammu and Kashmir Governor N.N. Vohra Tuesday accepted the resignation of Chief Minister Omar Abdullah after the opposition linked him to a 2006 sex scandal.

June 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Arun Jaitley has quit as the party's general secretary, days after being named leader of opposition in the upper house of parliament Rajya Sabha. Jaitley, the BJP's chief campaign manager for the Lok Sabha elections, had stepped down in keeping with the party's tradition of one-man one-post, BJP's media cell convenor Nalin Kohli told reporters here.

June 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Arun Jaitley has resigned as general secretary of the party in keeping with the tradition of "one man, one post". Jaitley had been appointed leader of opposition in the Rajya Sabha.

June 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Amid turmoil in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over its poll debacle, Arun Jaitley has resigned as its general secretary, though the party maintained Tuesday he was only following the one-man-one-post tradition. But speculation was rife that the party had made his resignation public now in a bid to pre-empt trouble at the meeting of the national executive, slated for June 20-21, with several party seniors insisting that responsibility be fixed for the poll defeat.

June 15th, 2009 RANCHI - Two days after he resigned from all party posts, senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Yashwant Sinha Monday sought a probe into how the contents of the resignation letter were leaked to the media. "It would be in the interest of the party to investigate how the letter was leaked to the media," Sinha, former external affairs minister, told reporters in Hazaribagh, his parliamentary constituency.

June 14th, 2009 RANCHI - Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Yashwant Sinha, who has resigned from all his party positions, Sunday clarified that he would remain in the party to serve the people of his constituency. I am very much in BJP.

June 13th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Bharatiya Janata Party President Rajnath Singh on Saturday accepted senior party leader Yashwant Sinha's resignation from all party posts held by him. Jharkhand leader Yashwant Sinha had written a four-page letter to Rajnath Singh and other members of the party's core group.

June 13th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Former Union Minister and senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha on Saturday resigned from all posts that he held in the party, amidst differences within the BJP after defeat in the recent Lok Sabha elections. Sinha, who was the BJP vice-president, also quit from the party's national executive council.

June 13th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The turmoil in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) after its poll debacle deepened Saturday with the resignation from all party posts of former central minister Yashwant Sinha, who joined a swelling number of senior leaders criticising the manner in which the party was functioning. Sinha faxed his resignation as party vice president to BJP president Rajnath Singh from Hazaribagh, the constituency in Jharkhand from where he won the Lok Sabha elections this time.

June 13th, 2009 RANCHI - Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Yashwant Sinha Saturday quit as national vice president of the party. Sinha faxed his resignation letter to party president Rajnath Singh, party sources said.

May 16th, 2009 PATNA - Actor-turned-politician Shatrughan Sinha of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had established a comfortable lead over his rival Shekhar Suman of the Congress in Bihar's Patna Saheb constituency. According to official sources, Sinha was leading by 66,000 votes over Shekhar Suman after five rounds of counting.

May 16th, 2009 PATNA - Actor-turned-politician Shatrughan Sinha of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was leading by 30,000 votes over his rival Shekhar Suman of Congress in Bihar's Patna Saheb constituency. According to official sources, Shatrughan Sinha has established a comfortable lead over Shekhar Suman after three rounds of counting.

May 4th, 2009 KATHMANDU - President Dr. Ram Baran Yadav accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal on Monday evening, stated a report on Nepal News.

March 18th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Samajwadi Party general secretary Amar Singh Tuesday said his party's doors were always open for Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Shatrughan Sinha if he does not consider the party 'untouchable'. Sinha Tuesday called on Singh at his residence here.

February 11th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Former Karnataka chief minister S. Bangarappa Thursday resigned from the Lok Sabha and the Samajwadi Party while declaring his plans to return to the Congress.