Hours after Ludhiana bypoll result, Bharat Bhushan Ashu resigns as working president of PPCC

Hours after losing to AAP’s Sanjeev Arora in the Ludhiana West bypoll, Congress candidate Bharat Bhushan Ashu on Monday resigned as Working President of the Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee. 

Taking moral responsibility for the defeat, Ashu said he had asked for his chosen team from the party high command to manage his campaign, and he has taken the responsibility for the defeat. He said he and his team had fought the election to the best of their ability. 

Party sources said there was more to the resignation given Ashu’s differences with the PPCC chief Amarinder Singh Raja Warring and Partap Bajwa. Ashu had categorically said that Warring and Bajwa should not campaign for him.

 

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