By Piyush Srivastava Updated: 16:41 EST, 22 January 2012 The BJP is collapsing under the weight of its own heavyweights in UP. Minutes after the appointment of Pankaj Singh - son of party's former president Rajnath Singh - as general secretary of the UP unit on Sunday, three senior state-level functionaries tendered their resignation in protest. Daya Shanker Singh, Santosh Singh and Ashwini Tyagi - who have forwarded their resignations to party president Nitin Gadkari are UP BJP secretaries. Like father, like son: Rajnath Singh (left) and his son Pankaj Pankaj, who is much junior to them, also held the same post before being promoted.
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'The BJP is turning into a concentration camp where its committed workers are victimised'
My two colleagues and I have sent our resignations to @placeholder in protest against his decision to promote Pankaj.'