Arun Jaitley quits as BJP General Secretary

NEW DELHI: Senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley, the target of several party leaders who have questioned his appointment as Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha after the electoral debacle, today quit as General Secretary of the organisation.

However, Jaitley, who was the chief election strategist and has attracted a lot of flak for the party's performance in the Lok Sabha polls, has not quit as leader of BJP in Rajya Sabha which enabled him to become the Leader of Opposition in the upper house.

BJP President Rajnath Singh today said Jaitley gave his resignation six-seven days ago before he left on a holiday to London.

"In his resignation letter, Jaitley said he was resigning from the post of general secretary under the one-man, one-post rule of the party after his appointment as Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha," Singh said, adding that he has accepted it today.