Bihar's new chief minister invoked three decades of political rivalry - jails, alliances and broken loyalties - to explain why Lalu Yadav deserves credit for putting him in power.
BJP National President Nitin Nabin, BJP leader Shivesh Kumar, Rashtriya Lok Morcha (RLM) President Upendra Kushwaha, and JD(U) leader Ramnath Thakur, son of Karpoori Thakur, submitted their nominations to the election commission.
The speculation gained further momentum when three of the four Rashtriya Lok Morcha (RLM) MLAs, Madhav Anand, Rameshwar Mahato, and Alok Singh, skipped a ‘Litti Chokha’ party hosted at Kushwaha’s Patna residence.
Singh was earlier given a ticket by the BJP from West Bengal's Asansol parliamentary constituency.
Once a blue-eyed boy of the Bihar chief minister, he is so “harsh and blunt” about him at a public meeting in Nalanda that it’s difficult to imagine that not too long ago he was his mentor.
Recalling his recent entry in JDU, Lallan Singh categorically said: “Nobody was interested in joining him again in the party because of his habit of changing sides.”
In the press meet, Khushwaha announced that his newly-floated party called Rashtria Lok Janata Dal (RLJD). He has been unanimously nominated as the national president of the new party.
Addressing a press conference at his residence in Bihar's Patna, Janata Dal-United (JD-U) leader said, "Even if Nitish Kumar asks me to leave JD-U, I won't.
This comes amid speculation about Kushwaha 'being in touch' with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
According to a section of political commentators, BJP might use the JD(U) Parliamentary Board chairman to destabilize the Mahagatbandhan Government.
