Their resignations came a day after TDP chief and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu announced that the party's ministers will quit the central government in protest against its refusal to grant special category status to the state.
Conrad Sangma kept finance, planning, and personnel, and some other departments to himself, besides those not allotted to others.
Rahul Gandhi said Congress saw the society as a system that has to be kept in balance, asserting that he would work for ushering in a "new Congress" after taking over the reigns of the party from his mother Sonia in December.
Yesterday, Naidu, who is the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) chief, announced that Y S Chowdary and Ashok Gajapathi Raju will quit the Union cabinet. He, however, had said the party would continue to be part of NDA.
The YSR Congress chief said both the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had cheated Andhra Pradesh by promising but not granting the special category status.
MP Sushmita Dev, who participated in the protest, challenged PM Narendra Modi to bring the bill for 33 per cent reservation for women in Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha.
Medical and Health Minister Srinivas Rao and Endowments Minister Manikyala Rao met the Chief Minister in his chamber in the Assembly and handed the letters of resignation to him.
The local police have apprehended the person and said that there was no political relation in the matter. The man had broken the spectacles on Gandhi's statue in Thaliperambu area of the city on Thursday morning.
The two ministers drove to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's residence and handed over their resignations in accordance with the party's decision to resign over the TDP's charge that the Centre was not granting special status to Andhra Pradesh.
Prime Minister Modi strongly condemned the incidents and warned of stern action against those found guilty. He spoke to Home Minister Rajnath Singh, expressing his strong disapproval.
The decision came hours after Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said that the Centre can't offer special status to Andhra Pradesh, but would offer a special package with equivalent funding.
As per the numbers in the Gujarat Assembly, only two members from the BJP can be sent to the Rajya Sabha. So, the party opted to nominate Jaitley from Uttar Pradesh.
In a series of tweets, Shah distanced the BJP from the vandalism after a few party leaders appeared to be endorsing the attacks on the statues and said his organisation believes a wide range of ideas and ideologies can co-exist in India.
After Lenin in West Bengal, Periyar in Tamil Nadu and Syama Prasad Mukherjee in West Bengal, a new incident of statue vandalism has now been reported from UP's Mawana.
According to sources, TDP has asked its two ministers YS Chowdary and Ashok Gajapati Raju to quit the Modi Cabinet if their demandsfor special status are not met.
Raja expressed regret if his post had hurt anybody's feelings. According to him, damaging the statues of Ramasamy is not agreeable.
Local residents have claimed that students of the university tried to vandalise the bust and painted its face black. The police have arrested six people after the incident.
"India can never be Syria, he should know that. This guru should take his private jet to Iraq and Syria to spread the message of peace through his Art of Living," Shiv Sena said in the article.
The police on Tuesday said it had received complaints of post-poll violence from various parts of the state since Sunday night.
"It's all a third-rate type of violence and vandalism by the BJP. It's all a planned affair," Reddy said on the pulling down of the Russian revolutionary leader's statue in South Tripura's Belonia town.
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