Rashtriya Lok Dal Revamps Uttar Pradesh Unit After Poll Rout
NDTV
Party president Jayant Singh Chaudhary had dissolved the entire state executive due bad performance in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections.
Former MLA Ramashish Rai was appointed the president of the Rashtriya Lok Dal's Uttar Pradesh unit, days after the party's entire state executive was dissolved following its poor show in the Assembly polls.
RLD spokesperson Surendra Kumar Sharma said apart from Ramashish Rai, Manjit Singh and Kanwar Hasan has been appointed state working presidents.
Aishwarya Raj Singh has been appointed as the state convener of Team RLD, he said.
The Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) had contested the elections in alliance with the Samajwadi Party.
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The union government has scrapped the 'no-detention policy' for classes 5 and 8 in schools governed by it allowing them to fail students who do not clear the year-end exams, according to officials.
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The man, identified as Zakir, gesticulated to a biker to help him, even as the truck kept accelerating, showed the 36-second clip.
All the accused were arrested in November and December after reviewing data from the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Center (I4C), said Priyanshu Dewan, ACP (cyber).