Monday, December 10th, 2018
Upendra Kushwaha resigns as Union minister and quits the NDA
Upendra Kushwaha, president of the Rashtriya Lok Samta Party (RLSP), resigned from the Union council of ministers on Monday and pulled his party out of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance, just ahead of the start of Parliament’s Winter Session. The resignation letter In his letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Kushwaha said he felt dejected and betrayed by the prime minister’s leadership. He wrote that it was unfortunate that the government’s priority was not working for the poor and oppressed but targeting political opponents by any means. At a pressRead More
Rajasthan exit polls: aggregate gives Congress 112 seats, BJP 78
Exit polls released on Friday, after voting ended in five states, indicated that Rajasthan would keep up its pattern of voting out the sitting government. Results for Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Telangana and Mizoram were due on Tuesday, December 11. What the numbers suggest An aggregate of the exit polls put the Congress at 112 and the BJP at 78 of the 199 Rajasthan seats where voting took place. A party needs 100 seats to form the government. Apart from anti-incumbency, the BJP had lost several prominent members before theRead More