Senior party leader LK Advani on Monday resigned from all posts of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

The resignation came a day after Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi was appointed the head of the party's election campaign committee for 2014 Lok Sabha elections.

In a letter written to BJP president Rajnath Singh, Advani said he is resigning from the national executive, parliamentary board and election committee.



A dejected Advani, who did not attend the party's three-day conclave in Goa, wrote in the letter that the direction in which the party is going is not the way it was planned by the party's founders.

"For some time I have been finding it difficult to reconcile either with the current functioning of the party, or the direction in which it is going. I no longer have the feeling that this is the same idealistic party created by Dr Mookerji, Deen Dayalji, Nanaji and Vajpayeeji whose sole concern was the country, and its people," Advani wrote.

Advani, one of the tallest party leaders, further wrote that he finds it difficult to work with people who are concerned only with personal agenda.

"Most leaders of ours are now concerned just with their personal agendas," the veteran stated.

Advani was upset over Modi's elevation as party's poll panel chief and today's development is a fallout of that decision.

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