After Bihar Loss, Kushwaha’s RLSP Merges with Nitish’s JD(U)
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Months after it failed to win a single seat in the 2020 Bihar Assembly elections, Rashtriya Lok Samata Party (RLSP) President Upendra Kushwaha on Sunday, 14 March, announced the merger of
his party with Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal (United), reported The New Indian Express.
Kushwaha, who had fallen out with Nitish Kumar in the past, added that he had worked with the JD(U) in the past and that the merger was happening in the interest of the state.
The merger comes barely a day after 35 RLSP leaders, including the working state president and principal general secretary flocked to the Rashtriya Janata Dal. The leaders had been critical
of the party’s decision unite under the JD(U).
Kushwaha, whose party dented the JDU(U)‘s vote base in at least 30 seats, wasn’t always known as such, reports The Indian Express.
However, he parted ways with Nitish Kumar in 2009, following which he returned to JD(U) after two years. This too, didn’t last long and he left the party again in 2013.
When asked about his differences with Nitish Kumar, Kushwaha had said, “There is no need of an enemy when you have a friend like Nitish Kumar."
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