Bihar Politics: After Upendra Kushwaha’s exit from NDA alliance, his party vice-president joins Nitish Kumar’s JDU

Days after RLSP chief Upendra Kushwaha’s walkout from NDA alliance, his vice-president Bhagwan Singh Kushwaha has taken exit door from the party and joined the bitter rival Nitish Kumar’s JDU.

As per NDTV reports, Bhagwan Singh Kushwaha has claimed that he is not the only one joining Nitish Kumar's party. He claims he is taking 35 state-level party officers and 1,200 workers with him.

"I have left the RLSP and joining JDU with RLSP's 35 state-level office-bearers and 1,200 workers after Upendra Kushwaha decided to leave NDA and join UPA," he said at a press conference in Patna today.

"When I joined the RLSP, my condition was that it should remain with the NDA. What Kushwaha has done (by severing ties with NDA) was not liked by the party's rank and file. I tried my level best to ensure that Upendra Kushwaha should remain with NDA but he (Upendra) started feeling unease after Nitish Kumar joined the NDA," he said.

Bhagwan Singh Kushwaha - who had served in many parties earlier like CPI(ML), RJD, JD(U), Pappu Yadav's Jan Adhikar Party - is from Upendra Kushwaha's caste group that constitutes a sizeable vote bank.

With PTI-inputs

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