Former Union minister and senior BJP leader RK Singh resigned from the party on Saturday hours after he was suspended for “anti-party activities.” His exit came a day after the NDA swept the Bihar assembly elections and amid Singh’s growing rift with the party leadership.

Singh said the BJP ’s suspension letter “does not specify the anti party activities of which I have been accused. I cannot give a showcase against charges which have not been specified.”

A former MP from Arrah , Singh had openly criticised both the BJP and the Nitish Kumar -led NDA government in Bihar for months. His allegations of a scam in the commissioning of a power plant—raised days before the state went to polls—triggered a political storm and deepened tensions within the alliance.

In its suspension notice

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