Patna: A heavyweight Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader who won the Lok Sabha elections twice resigned from the party on Friday saying the Narendra Modi wave was very fast on the wane.

He also charged the party leadership with surrendering before its ally, Janata Dal United (JD-U) headed by chief minister Nitish Kumar. He looks headed for the opposition Grand Alliance.

Uday Singh who sent in his resignation to the ailing BJP chief Amit Shah, now suffering from Swine flu, had been going annoyed over his marginalisation within the party.

He had represented the Muslim-dominated Purnia Lok Sabha seat in eastern Bihar twice in the parliament and thus his resignation is being described as a setback for the BJP ahead of the upcoming LS polls.

“There is widespread resentment among the party workers and leaders over undemocratic style of current leadership. It is too difficult to meet Amit Shah. You can imagine the situation from the fact that former federal minister and BJP ally Upendra Kushwaha kept on requesting for an appointment with Shah but was never given. Eventually he resigned from the Modi cabinet and also quit the NDA,” Singh told the media on Friday.

He disapproved the party leadership’s decision to share power with the ruling JD-U in Bihar while the party was mandated to sit in the opposition. “Committed BJP workers are appalled over the manner the party agreed to share power with Nitish Kumar, forgetting our bitter experiences with him in the past, and also over the fact that his government is rapidly losing goodwill. Now the BJP will end up sharing the blame for his misdeeds,” he said.

He again slammed the party leadership for giving what he said “a massive share of LS seats” to the JD-U which won only two seats out of Bihar’s total 40 in the last 2014 LS polls.

Singh is not alone. Quite many sitting BJP parliamentarians, such as Shatrughan Sinha and Kirti Jha Azad, have already revolted against the party leadership and are expected to contest the next LS polls on some other party’s tickets. Of them, Sinha has almost declared a war on Prime Minister Modi and has gone on repeatedly questioning his government policies, such as note ban and Rafale deal.