Union Minister Upendra Kushwaha resigns from Cabinet over seat sharing, RLSP may walk out of NDA
New Delhi, Dec 10 (IBNS) : Union minister and Rashtriya Lok Shakti (RLSP) party chief Upendra Kushwaha has resigned from the Narendra Modi cabinet after a long-drawn battle with the BJP over seat-sharing for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, media reports said on Monday.
Kushwaha is also expected to sever ties with the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) even as the BJP holds a meeting with other alliance partners.
He had been sulking ever since the BJP and the JD(U) reached an agreement that the two parties would contest 17 seats each in Bihar, where the total number of constituencies is 40.
RLSP was offered only two seats, one less than the number it had fought on and won in 2014 Lok Sabha polls.
Before launching an all-out attack on the BJP, Kushwaha had urged the party to come up with a "respectable" seat-sharing formula by November 30.
"Kushwaha is likely to announce his parting of ways with the BJP today at 2pm. He will also quit as a Union minister," CNN-News 18 quoted a senior RLSP leader as saying.
The RLSP may join hands with the opposition, which includes Lalu Prasad's RJD and the Congress.
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