The senior leader sent a letter to BJP president Rajnath Singh informing him of his resignation. "No longer do I have the feeling that this is the same idealistic party created by Shyama Prasad Mookerjee, Deendayal Upadhyay and A B Vajpayee," Advani said in his letter."For some time I have been finding it difficult to reconcile either with the current functioning of the party, or the direction in which it is going," he said.
"Most leaders of ours are now concerned just with their personal agendas," Advani said in his one-page resignation.
Advani had skipped the BJP executive meet in Goa held over the weekend.
The BJP leadership on Sunday had appointed Narendra Modi as the chairman of its national election committee in a significant step towards complete compliance with the pressure from the cadre to declare the Gujarat CM the saffron candidate for prime ministership.
The decision came in the face of resistance of stalwart L K Advani and marks Modi's emergence as BJP's pre-eminent leader at the expense of the former deputy PM and many others.
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