IN AND OUT IN THE BHARATIYA JANATA PARTY

December, 2017: Rebel Bharatiya Janata Party Member of Parliament (MP) from Maharashtra’s Bhandara- Gondiya constituency, Nana Patole quit citing 14 reasons including the increasing number of farmer suicides, demonetisation and goods and service tax for his resignation.

December, 2017: MP Veerendra Kumar, Kerala unit chief of Janata Dal (United), or JD(U), resigned from his Rajya Sabha seat protesting against his party’s decision to support the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) at the centre. JDU joined the NDA after Chief Minister of Bihar, Nitish Kumar, decided to change alliance partners and shift to the BJP as ally.

July, 2017: Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati resigned from her seat in the Upper House after she introduced a motion on the rising atrocities against Dalits and minorities in the country but was allowed to speak for just three minutes.

October, 2017: All India Trinamul Congress leader Mukul Roy resigned from the Rajya Sabha after he quit the TMC and joined the BJP. “We are not servants in a party, but we are comrades. But some senior leaders are treated so. I am unable to accept it and for this, I am resigning. I feel it is unethical and immoral to continue as MP, though I had six months left in my tenure,” he said in his resignation letter, about the reason for his resignation.

July, 2016: Cricketer Navjot Singh Sidhu resigned from the upper house because “At behest of PM, I had accepted RS nomination for welfare of Punjab. With closure of every window leading to Punjab the purpose stands defeated, now a mere burden. I prefer not to carry it,” he said.