Text of Advani's resignation letter

Dear Shri Rajnath Singhji

All my life I have found working for the Jana Sangh and the Bharatiya Janata Party a matter of great pride and endless satisfaction for myself.

For sometime I have been finding it difficult to reconcile either with the current functioning of the party, or the direction in which it is going. I no longer have the feeling that this is the same idealistic party created by Dr (Shyama Prasad) Mookerji, Pandit Deen Dayalji (Upadhyay), Nanaji (Deshmukh) and (Atal Bihari) Vajpayeeji whose sole concern was the country and its people.

Most leaders of ours are now concerned just with their personal agendas.

I have decided, therefore, to resign from the three main fora of the party, namely, the national executive, parliamentary board and the election committee. This may be regarded as my resignation letter."