New Delhi:Former BJP leader and Member of Parliament Jaswant Singh resigned from the post of Public Accounts Committee (PAC) chairman here on Wednesday by sending his resignation
letter to Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar. Earlier, in August, after his expulsion
from the BJP following his controversial book on Pakistan founder M.A. Jinha,
the BJP had requested him to vacate the post. However, Singh had turned down the
demand even after many senior BJP leaders including Sushma Swaraj and S S Ahluwalia
made failed attempts to convince him for resigning from the PAC chief's post.
Following which members of the BJP and some of its allies had stopped attending
the PAC's meetings under his chairmanship till date. Singh resignation also holds
importance as the demand for creation of a separate state of Gorkhaland, like
the ongoing process for creation of Telangana, is gaining momentum with each passing
day. It can be recalled that the Gorkha Janmukti Morcah (GJM), a group which wants
creation of a separate State Gorkhaland, support Jaswant Singh from Darjeeling
constituency of West Bengal during the Lok Sabha polls of May 2009.
