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Lucknow: Rumblings within the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) alliance came to the fore as an Uttar Pradesh cabinet minister and a junior minister allegedly got into a tiff over protocol at an event presided over by Union minister of state (MoS) and RLD chief Jayant Chaudhary Saturday...
Anil Kumar, a senior RLD leader elevated during the UP cabinet expansion in March, and MoS (Independent Charge) Kapil Dev Aggarwal of the BJP, seemingly had a disagreement on the dais during the inauguration of an industrial training institute in west UPs Muzaffarnagar constituency...
In a purported video of the interaction, which has gone viral, both ministers appear to be arguing while Union Minister of State for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Jayant Chaudhary was addressing the public...
Speaking to ThePrint, a senior RLD leader said that with Kumar being elevated as cabinet minister and the BJP reduced to only one assembly seat in the region, there are rumblings within the alliance...
Speaking to ThePrint, a senior leader from the RLDs Muzaffarnagar unit, who was present on stage when the incident happened, told ThePrint that Aggarwal and Kumar had an argument over protocol issues..
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