{"id":306871,"date":"2018-12-11T07:43:47","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T07:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=306871"},"modified":"2018-12-11T07:43:47","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T07:43:47","slug":"president-ram-nath-kovind-accepts-upendra-kushwahas-resignation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/president-ram-nath-kovind-accepts-upendra-kushwahas-resignation\/","title":{"rendered":"President Ram Nath Kovind accepts Upendra Kushwaha&#8217;s resignation"},"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=\"485\" height=\"296\" 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: 485px) 100vw, 485px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">President Ram Nath Kovind on Tuesday accepted the resignation of Rashtriya Lok Samata Party (RLSP) chief Upendra Kushwaha from the Union Council of Ministers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Kushwaha on Monday\u00a0resigned as Union Minister from Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s Council of Ministers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;The President of India, as advised by the Prime Minister, has accepted the resignation of Kushwaha from the Union Council of Ministers, with immediate effect,&#8221; an official statement said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The RLSP chief was 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Ram Nath Kovind on Tuesday accepted the resignation of Rashtriya Lok Samata Party (RLSP) chief Upendra Kushwaha from the Union Council of Ministers. Kushwaha on Monday\u00a0resigned as Union Minister from Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s Council of Ministers. &#8220;The President of India, as advised by the Prime Minister, has accepted the resignation of Kushwaha from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":306820,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[1452,10193,9649],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306871"}],"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=306871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306872,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306871\/revisions\/306872"}],"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=306871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}