Modi threatened to quit to force Joshi out

May 24, 2012 21:32

Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi threatened to resign from the BJP national executive to force the resignation of Sanjay Joshi, reports Sheela Bhatt.

Purshottam Rupala, a confidante of Modi, gave a resignation letter of Modi to BJP president Nitin Gadkari at the agenda meeting for the BJP national executive meeting in Mumbai on Wednesday.

Rupala told Gadkari that Modi would quit the national executive if Sanjay Joshi does not resign. Not only that, Modi also threatened that neither he nor any Gujarati member of the BJP would attend the national executive meeting in Mumbai.

It was only after this that the BJP top brass was forced to ask Joshi, who was embroiled in a sex CD scandal, to quit his post in the national executive.

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