Politician Upendra Kushwaha launches new political party : In a huge setback for Bihar Chief Nitish Kumar ahead of the 2024 general elections, Upendra Kushwaha on Monday quit Janata Dal (United) and resigned from all party positions and launched a new political party ‘Rashtriya Lok Janata Dal’.
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This development in Bihar politics comes when Kushwaha has been at loggerheads with Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.
He has also resigned from the post of MLC. He was a key political aide of Nitish Kumar. He quit the JD(U) in 2013 to float Rashtriya Lok Samata Party (RLSP). He allied with the NDA and won the Lok Sabha polls a year later. In 2021, Kushwaha merged his RLSP with the JD(U).