merisarkar news service
New Delhi, January 06, 2010
Amar Singh
High-profile Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh on Wednesday resigned from all the three posts of the party (general secretary, party spokesperson and executive member of the party's parliamentary board) with immediate effect.
Amar Singh, who is in Dubai, told the reporters over the phone that he has faxed his resignation to the party president Mulayam Singh Yadav.
He cited poor health as the reason for his decision saying that now he would spend time with his wife and daughters.
Amar Singh said in his blog, "I feel terribly overworked and stressed and post kidney transplant, my doctor's advice is against this syndrome."
He further writes that Indian media is unnecessarily trying to read too much in his resignation and the party has got other capable and energetic leaders to fill in the vacuum.
Shortly after the party's humiliating defeat in the Lok Sabha by-election in Firozabad in November, Singh had criticised Yadav, saying the defeat was because of the over confidence of the SP chief and his family.
He said that even if the party president Mulayam Singh Yadav insisted he would not change his mind.
However, Mulayam Singh Yadav said in Lucknow that he would try to persuade Mr. Singh to change his decision. He said that this is an internal matter of the party.
