Bhubaneswar, April 7 -- Lekhasri Samantsinghar, Vice President of the Odisha unit of the BJP, today resigned from the party.

She sent a resignation letter in this regard to Manmohan Samal, BJP State President.

Samantsinghar cited in the letter that she could not earn the trust of the leadership despite sincerity and hard work, for which she decided to quit the saffron party.

"I have given my sweat and blood to the Bharatiya Janata Party since the last ten years. However, despite all the sincerity and hard work, I could not earn the trust of the leadership. Hence, I feel there is nothing left for me to do here and my desire to serve the people of Odisha is being hampered," she wrote in the letter.

"I hereby resign from the primary memb...