Blow to BJP, Jakhar quits as Punjab unit chief ahead of panchayat poll

Punjab president of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Sunil Kumar Jakhar is learnt to have resigned as the state chief of the saffron party, just over a year after he was named to lead the party in the state.
The state BJP has been rendered headless ahead of the panchayat elections on October 15. Multiple sources close to Sunil Jakhar and in the Punjab and national organisation of the BJP have confirmed to The Tribune that Jakhar has put in his papers.

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