Imphal: BJP MLA Paonam Brojen, from Wangjing Tentha Assembly constituency, on Thursday tendered his resignation from the chairmanship of Manipur Development Society on “personal grounds.”
He is the third party legislator to have resigned from their respective administrative posts of the Biren Singh-led BJP government within a fortnight.
Earlier, BJP MLA Karam Shyam resigned on Monday from the chairmanship of Tourism Corporation Manipur Limited complaining that he had “not been assigned any responsibility”. On April 8, another party legislator Thokchom Radheshyam quit as the advisor to the chief minister citing a similar grievance.
All three MLAs are currently in Delhi reportedly to meet the party’s central leadership and voice their grievances. Their moves created speculation that dissension was brewing in the Biren Singh-led BJP government.
“I tender my resignation from the post of Chairman of Manipur Development Society Imphal on personal grounds. This may be kindly accepted,” Brojen said in a letter to Chief Minister N Biren Singh.
Meanwhile, MLA, Uripok Assembly constituency, Khwairakpam Raghumani, has filed a complaint with the Manipur police against the BJP state Minority Morcha president for “threatening” him through a Facebook post.
A former Congress legislator, Brojen joined the saffron party in July 2017 along with then legislator Kshetrimayum Biren Singh.
He was also one of the eight Congress legislators out of 28 Congress MLAs who were elected during the last Assembly elections in 20217, and joined the BJP. With agency inputs
