Nine Congress MLAs, most of them Bahuguna loyalists, rebelled against Harish Rawat and supported BJP's claim to form a government.
'This is about demolishing all that we have stood for as a nation after Independence. This is an attack on the nation's very foundation.'
Not amused by imposition of President's Rule by the Centre, Rawat termed it as the 'murder of democracy'.
Punjab Governor Shivraj Patil was the first who expressed his desire to put in his papers even before Modi government took charge, but he was told by Congress leaders not to do so as it would then put pressure on the others to do the same, reports Anita Katyal.
Fires are blazing across Jammu and Kashmir, the state of Uttarakhand and have reached the doorstep of Himachal Pradesh's capital city Shimla.
A summary of the day's play in the Vijay Hazare One-day tournament.
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