New Delhi: After days of hypothesis, Bharatiya Janata Celebration (BJP) nationwide spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla resigned from the occasion and its exercise membership, saying that he was compelled to take the choice as a result of “sure people”.
On 31 July, Poonawalla had eliminated all reference to the BJP from his X bio, triggering hypothesis about his resignation from the occasion. Nevertheless, at the moment there was no official affirmation from the BJP or him.In a letter to BJP nationwide president Nitin Nabin, Poonawalla mentioned he was unconditionally resigning from all obligations.
“Please learn this letter in continuation with my final letter dated thirtieth of July 2026, the place I supplied to resign unconditionally from all positions and first membership of the BJP as a result of urgent monetary and private circumstances,” he wrote.
“The occasions of the previous few days, courtesy sure people about whom I’ve informed you in nice element, have compelled me to strengthen and stand by my earlier resolution. With none sense of harm and solely with the sense of gratefulness, love, affection, and highest regard for Prime Minister Narendra Modi Ji, Celebration President Nitin Nabin Ji, senior leaders like Dwelling Minister Amit Shah Ji, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh Ji and Normal Secretary (Organisation) Shri B.L Santosh Ji, I’d, with all humility at my command, as soon as once more thank the occasion for the platform and alternatives given to me within the final 5 years,” he added.
Later, in a put up on X, he expressed his gratitude to the occasion, saying that “in no different nation and no different occasion would a narrative like mine, of a younger, Pasmanda Muslim, non dynast, even be attainable”.
Resignation Letter.
With utmost humility, sense of affection & gratitude i’ve as soon as once more submitted my resignation letter to @BJP4India & Hon’ble Shri @NitinNabin ji & have requested that the identical be accepted.
Eternally grateful for steerage, love, respect and platform that… pic.twitter.com/yUvyJiWNdX
— Shehzad Jai Hind (@Shehzad_Ind) August 17, 2026
Poonawalla is the brother of political analyst Tehseen Poonawalla, they usually had a really public break up, when the BJP spokesperson brazenly criticised the Congress management’s inside elections, which led to Tehseen distancing himself from him.
Hailing from Pune, he comes from a well-off Aga Khan Muslim household. He began working for the Congress in 2008. Poonawalla studied regulation and interned with Congress chief Suresh Kalmadi earlier than becoming a member of the All India Congress Committee (AICC) as a volunteer. After finishing his course in 2008, he interned with the Congress’ media analysis staff in Delhi.
He additional mentioned that he discovered it “extraordinarily touching and I’m certainly grateful that the occasion refused to just accept my resignation letter instantly and requested me to rethink the choice”.
Poonawalla who joined the BJP in 2017 and earlier held obligations at Delhi BJP mentioned after lengthy and exhausting contemplation he has arrived at a last resolution “that I want to press for relieving me from my position as Nationwide Spokesperson and lively major membership of the BJP”.
A lawyer by coaching, Poonawalla grabbed headlines in 2017 when he termed the Congress presidential election course of as rigged and claimed it was rigged in favour of Rahul Gandhi to raise him to the put up of occasion president. He had stop the occasion following this controversy.
ThePrint had reported that on the time of his quitting, he alleged that Congress leaders handled him very shabbily regardless of his repeated makes an attempt to get in contact with Rahul’s workplace earlier than his public outburst.
PM Modi had used his claims to hit out on the Congress and the rival occasion’s presidential elections.
The choice, in keeping with Poonawalla, was owing to “urgent emergency monetary and private circumstances”. He added that he determined to maneuver into the non-public sector.
Nevertheless, he identified that wherever attainable and in no matter format attainable he’ll proceed to help the imaginative and prescient and work of Prime Minister Modi and the BJP.
“Like I mentioned, I’m solely leaving the Vyavastha, not the Vyakti or Vichar,” he added.
