Jind, October 07: BJP Vice President Swami Raghvanand, who is also party”s nominee from Jind, has resigned from the party and announced his decision to quit politics “due to its low standard”. Associated with the BJP for the last 15 years, he made his announcement to quit politics at Pandu Pandara village in the district yesterday.
“I have sent my resignation to the BJP President Rajnath Singh,” he said adding that he will not enter politics again. He said that he was fed up with the low standard of politics because “selfish politicians have made politics a business.
” He would not pursue his poll campaign and now he will work for the upliftment of the poor, he added. Raghvanand had unsuccessfully contested the Lok Sabha election in 2004 from the Hissar parliamentary seat as a BJP nominee.
In 2008, he unsuccessfully contested in the assembly by-election from Adampur and remained President of the Jind district unit of the BJP for five years.
—PTI–