Guwahati: Sikkim BJP President DB Chauhan submitted his resignation as the state president of the saffron party on Tuesday.
Taking to his Twitter handle, the BJP president wrote, “I have tendered my resignation from the post of @BJP4Sikkim State President. My sincere gratitude towards party high command, co-workers, friends and well-wishers for their guidance, advice and cooperation throughout the tenure.”
In his letter to the BJP National President JP Nadda, DB Chauhan wrote, “I, Dal Bahadur Chauhan, Sikkim State President of Bharatiya Janata Party, tender my resignation from this post from today i.e 13th December 2022.
I would like to express my sincere gratitude towards my party’s high command, my state unit co-workers, friends and well-wishers for their guidance, advice and cooperation throughout the tenure, which helped me to carry on my responsibilities as the State President for the last seven years.”
Notably, just a year after being appointed as an advisor on September 1, 2020, DB Chauhan submitted his retirement from the Sikkim Forest and Wildlife Department in 2021.
Prior to this, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) accused corruption in the installation of crash barriers along Jawahar Lal Nehru Road on December 10 due to the fact that funding for the project were removed but the barriers were not put in place.
As per I K Rasaily of BJP who is also a panchayat president for 51 Kyangosla Panchayat Unit, the party also wrote a letter to the department concerned but no satisfactory reply was received.
”We have also written a letter to the concerned department seeking information regarding non-execution of BADP-sanctioned work on site but they failed,” he added.
He further said that during the year 2019-20 the Planning and Development Department, Government of Sikkim has conveyed the approval of “Crash Barrier along JN Road from 3rd Mile to 17th Mile, East Sikkim” amounting to the tune of Rs 50 lakh under Border Area Development Programme (BADP) projects.