Uttar Pradesh Politics Notes 7

• The major reasons for the break-up of ties between the BKD and
Congress (N) were two; one, Charan Singh's call of merger of BKD
with Congress (N) was rejected by the National Executive of BKD.
Two, BKD MP's in the Parliament had voted against the wishes of
Congress, as they had voted against the abolition of Privy Purses.
This move of the BKD had not only strained relations between
coalition partners but the tension grew so high that Charan Singh
asked 13 Congress (N) Ministers to resign from the Ministry, when
they declined his advise to quit, Charan Singh immediately
recommended their dismissal to the Governor. On this Kamaiapati
Tripathi withdrew his support to Charan Singh. The Governor
seeking advise of the Attorney General asked Charan Singh to resign
as Chief Minister and also recommended to the President
imposition of'President Rule' in Uttar Pradesh''.
• However the State Assembly was not
dissolved to enable political parties to reach
some sort of accord to form government.
Charan Singh was not ready to resign as he
commanded support of opposition parties
with the following of 223 in a House of 426
and wanted show of strength, as Assembly
was to meet on October 6, 1970.