{"id":306819,"date":"2018-12-10T08:41:53","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T08:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=306819"},"modified":"2018-12-10T09:39:21","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T09:39:21","slug":"rlsp-chief-upendra-kushwaha-resigns-from-pm-narendra-modis-cabinet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rlsp-chief-upendra-kushwaha-resigns-from-pm-narendra-modis-cabinet\/","title":{"rendered":"RLSP chief Upendra Kushwaha resigns from PM Narendra Modi&#8217;s Cabinet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-306820 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Upendra-Kushwaha-fb-300x183.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/Upendra-Kushwaha-fb-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/Upendra-Kushwaha-fb-768x468.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/Upendra-Kushwaha-fb-696x424.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/Upendra-Kushwaha-fb-690x420.jpg 690w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/Upendra-Kushwaha-fb.jpg 795w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Rashtriya Lok Samta Party (RLSP) Chief Upendra Kushwaha on Monday\u00a0resigned as Union Minister from Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s Council of Ministers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the reports, Kushwaha will address a press briefing later today to explain on his decision to quit the BJP-led NDA government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The RLSP chief was reportedly upset with the BJP central leadership over the distribution of seats for 2019 Lok Sabha elections, after the party stated that that the RLSP was to be given two seats, one less than the number it had fought on and won in 2014 Lok Sabha polls.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Kushwaha was the Minister of State for Human Resource Development at the centre.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Kushwaha, earlier in the day had said that he would not attend today&#8217;s key meeting of all NDA allies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The resignation comes just a day before assembly elections results of five states, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Telangana, Chhattisgarh and Mizoram are to be declared.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">There\u00a0are speculations that the Kushwaha may join hands with the opposition including Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and the Congress.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rashtriya Lok Samta Party (RLSP) Chief Upendra Kushwaha on Monday\u00a0resigned as Union Minister from Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s Council of Ministers. According to the reports, Kushwaha will address a press briefing later today to explain on his decision to quit the BJP-led NDA government. The RLSP chief was reportedly upset with the BJP central leadership [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":306820,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,1801],"tags":[453,10193,4564,9649],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306819"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306821,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306819\/revisions\/306821"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/306820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}