President accepts Upendra Kushwaha’s resignation

New Delhi, Dec 11:  President Ram Nath Kovind Tuesday accepted RLSP president Upendra Kushwaha’s resignation from the Union council of ministers.

                The Rashtrapati Bhavan said in a statement that the President, as advised by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has accepted the resignation of Kushwaha from the Union council of Ministers with immediate effect.

                Notably, Kushwaha on Monday had severed his ties with the BJP and tendered his resignation accusing the Prime Minister of reducing the cabinet to a “rubber stamp”, “betraying” backward classes and giving Bihar only “jumlas”.

                He also claimed the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance would not be able to win a single seat in the state.