UP BJP president Vinay Katiyar resigns

Uttar Pradesh Bharatiya Janata Party president Vinay Katiyar on Sunday resigned from his post on the direction from the party high command.

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Katiyar, who had assumed the reigns of the state unit about two years back, sent his resignation letter to the party's national president M Venkaiah Naidu.

Katiyar later told reporters in Lucknow that he had resigned on the instruction of the party high command as a 'disciplined soldier' of the party.