Toronto, April 30 -- Indo-Canadian leader of the New Democratic Party (NDP) Jagmeet Singh announced his intent to resign from the post in a night that saw him losing his own riding (constituency) of Burnaby Central in British Columbia. It was terrible outcome for Singh personally as he ended up third in the constituency, with 18.1% of the vote share, and trailing both the Liberal Party's Wade Chang and the Conservative James Yan, both of whom were thousands of ballots ahead of him. He also led his party to a devastating defeat, with the NDP on track to garner just seven seats, losing 18 from the result in the 2021 elections. It wasn't just a bruising night for the NDP, it also meant that it was likely to lose official party status in the House of Commons that will be formed soon. It dropped 12% in support, with just six per cent backing in these elections. Singh said he would resign as soon as the interim party leader was chosen. That will bring to an end his tenure which began in October 2017, when he won the leadership race on the first ballot. The NDP's disastrous night could, in part, be attributed to Singh's decision to enter into a supply and confidence agreement with the minority Government of then Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in March 2022. While Trudeau exited in January, Singh couldn't shake off the association of having kept that unpopular government in power so long. He was first elected to the House of Commons in a by-election February 2019 from Burnaby South with about 39% of the vote. Speaking to NDP supporters in Burnaby late on Monday night there, he said, "Obviously, this night is a disappointing night for New Democrats." Flanked by his wife Gurkiran, he asserted, the party was "not going anywhere". He entered politics in 2011, when he was elected to the Ontario provincial parliament and used that as a springboard to the national scene. The Indian government, then led by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, denied him a visa in 2013 and Singh often attracted criticism after he first became NDP leader. In March 2018, facing sustained attack over his appearance at a rally featuring posters of Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, who birthed the Khalistan movement, and attending an event organised by a separatist outfit, Singh, for the first time, unequivocally accepted that Babbar Khalsa International founder Talwinder Singh Parmar was the person behind the bombing of Air India flight 182, the Kanishka, in 1985....