Suraj Pal Amu, the Bharatiya Janata Party leader who announced a Rs 10-crore reward for the beheading of actor Deepika Padukone and Padmavati director Sanjay Leela Bhansali, resigned from his party post on Wednesday. He was the BJP’s chief media coordinator in Haryana.
Amu will, however, continue working as a worker for the party, PTI reported.
In a resignation letter Amu sent to the state BJP chief Subhash Barala, Amu said he was upset that Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar had skipped a meeting he had arranged with representatives of the Rajput Karni Sena on Tuesday. The Karni Sena is protesting against the release of the Bollywood film Padmavati as they believe it distorts facts .
Amu said he was “pained” at Khattar’s behaviour. “I have never seen a BJP chief minister so arrogant who does not respect party workers and community representatives,” he told ANI.
On November 19, Amu had announced his controversial bounty, amid growing protests against Padmavati. He also said Rajputs in Gujarat would vote for the party in the upcoming Assemby elections only if Padmavati was banned.
“I want to congratulate the Meerut youth who announced a Rs 5-crore bounty for beheading Deepika Padukone and Sanjay Leela Bhansali,” Amu had said at a gathering. “We will reward those who behead them with Rs 10 crore and also take care of their family’s needs.”
The party had issued Amu a show-cause notice after his remarks.
With a heavy heart I have resigned from the post I had in BJP. I am pained at the behaviour of Haryana CM. I have never seen a BJP CM so arrogant who doesn't respect party workers and community representatives: Suraj Pal Amu pic.twitter.com/JVqRhjWchV
— ANI (@ANI) November 29, 2017
Padmavati, starring Deepika Padukone, Ranveer Singh and Shahid Kapoor, has been in the midst of a controversy since January when members of the Rajput Karni Sena assaulted Bhansali on the set of the movie in Jaipur. The shoot was then shifted to Maharashtra. The Karni Sena is against a supposed romantic scene between Rani Padmavati and Alauddin Khilji, which Bhansali had said was not in the film.
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