By SUNIL Sonkar
NEW DELHI, India: Jaswant Singh, expelled Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader, Wednesday resigned from the post of chairman of Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC).
Spokesperson of Jaswant Singh said to the media, “He (Singh) has put in his papers today (Wednesday) and it will come into effect from Dec 31.”
According to sources who is close to him, Singh wanted to announce his resignation publicly but before that the information was leaked by members of PAC.
It is learned that BJP earlier had asked Singh to step down from the post of Chairperson of PAC after he was expelled from the party in August following his book on Pakistan founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah.
Jawant Singh is a member of the Lok Sabha from the Darjeeling constituency. BJP had asked him to quit the parliamentary panel on grounds of morality.
PAC committee has 22-member and it scrutinises the spending of the government. The tenure of Singh as PAC Chairman ends in March next.
Singh said, “I wanted to establish a point, which has got established, which is the primacy of autonomy of functioning of Parliamentary Committees.”
Speaker Meira Kumar accepted the resignation of Jaswant Singh.
