Resignation of Saharanpur BJP President surrounded by allegations of sexual harassment of actress

Saharanpur. Saharanpur Metropolitan Bharatiya Janata Party President Punit Tyagi has had to resign due to allegations of sexual harassment by an alleged Mumbai actress.

According to party sources, BJP state president Bhupendra Singh Chaudhary has accepted the resignation and a new worker will soon be appointed to the post of metropolitan president.

Metropolitan BJP MLA Rajiv Gumber said on Thursday that he is not in support of Punit Tyagi but the truth of the allegations will be known only through investigation. Gumber said the law will take its course. It is not correct for the actress who made the allegation to say that the BJP representatives including her are helping Tyagi.

Party sources said that after the objectionable video of the actress was released on social media, a reply was sought from Punit Tyagi and seeing the tough stance of the state president, he immediately resigned from his post.

It is noteworthy that just before the Lok Sabha elections, the state BJP President had handed over the command of Saharanpur Metropolitan BJP to Puneet Tyagi in place of Rakesh Jain, but in the Lok Sabha elections, there was a huge decline in the votes of BJP in the urban seat, while the high command took a big lead in the Saharanpur city seat. Had the intention of.

BJP has always had a strong support base on the city seat. The Bania and Jain communities dominate the city and have the highest vote share after the Punjabis. The displeasure of both the communities due to Tyagi’s appointment cost the BJP heavily.

Baniya leader Sanjay Garg was hastily included in the party by BJP. He too could not turn his communities towards BJP candidate Raghav Lakhanpal Sharma. Now in the new circumstances, Punit Tyagi had to face insult and also lost his post.