Present
At the january 2012 state elections, the party won only 1 of the 70 seats, but because neither the Congress nor the BJP received a majority, the UKD took an important role in forming the next government as it chose to support the congress, which was much closer to having a majority compared to the BJP, and the congress formed the government in March 2012.
Read more about this topic: Uttarakhand Kranti Dal
Famous quotes containing the word present:
“Absent in body, but present in spirit.”
—Bible: New Testament St. Paul, in 1 Corinthians, 5:3.
“The present is an age of talkers, and not of doers; and the reason is, that the world is growing old. We are so far advanced in the Arts and Sciences, that we live in retrospect, and dote on past achievement.”
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830)
“Out in Hollywood, where the streets are paved with Goldwyn, the word “sophisticate” means, very simply, “obscene.” A sophisticated story is a dirty story. Some of that meaning was wafted eastward and got itself mixed up into the present definition. So that a “sophisticate” means: one who dwells in a tower made of a DuPont substitute for ivory and holds a glass of flat champagne in one hand and an album of dirty post cards in the other.”
—Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)