BJP national spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla has resigned from all positions and the primary membership of the party.
One of the most well-known faces of the ruling party on TV debates, Poonawalla stated that he has quit due to “pressing” financial and personal circumstances.
“I need to pay my rent. He’s asking me for rent on the 1st. But he quickly added that he did not expect the BJP to sustain him, and that he still remains committed to the party’s and the Prime Minister’s vision.
Because i’m from the BJP, my landlord is not going to give me free rent. Poonawalla also repeatedly insisted that his resignation was not a sudden move, but that he had been thinking about it since 2024.
In his first interview after quitting the BJP, Poonawalla said that political parties, including the BJP, do not pay salaries to their spokespersons and that he was finding it difficult to sustain himself. Political parties don’t pay karyakartas (workers),” Shehzad Poonawalla said. Insisting that financial issues were the main reason for his sudden exit from the BJP, Shehzad Poonawalla, who joined the party in 2021 after quitting the Congress, pointed out that while most politicians fall in the ” leta ” (taking some benefits) or ” beta ” (someone’s son) category, he belonged to neither and thus needed to find ways to sustain himself. He also said that the party leadership reached out to him after he first expressed his desire to quit a few weeks ago. Rejecting the various “conspiracy” theories floating around his exit, such as an alleged “sting operation” video, Poonawalla said that he was hearing of any such video for the first time and that there was no truth in the stories floating around on social media. In his resignation letter, Shehzad Poonawalla mentioned “the events of the last few days, courtesy certain individuals”, without taking names or specifying details. Refusing to name any names, Poonawalla told NDTV that there are working issues in every organisation. “In any organization, and especially in political organizations or media organizations, if you feel that everyone is going to have the most cordial, hunky-dory relationship, that’s not how it works.”
