At loggerheads with the BJP over seat-sharing for upcoming general elections, Rashtriya Lok Samta Party (RLSP) leader Upendra Kushwaha Monday quit from his post as Union Minister of State for HRD and walked out of the NDA alliance in Bihar and the Centre.
At loggerheads with the BJP over seat-sharing for upcoming general elections, Rashtriya Lok Samta Party (RLSP) leader Upendra Kushwaha Monday quit from his post as Union Minister of State for HRD and walked out of the NDA alliance in Bihar and the Centre.
Kushwaha also declined the BJP’s invitation to attend an NDA allies meet scheduled for later in the day. He is expected to join a new alliance along with the Congress, RJD and Sharad Yadav’s newly formed Loktantrik Janshakti Party.
The first signs of a rift between Kushwaha and BJP emerged after party chief Amit Shah, in a joint press conference with JD(U) chief Nitish Kumar, in October announced that both parties would contest an equal number of seats in 2019 elections and smaller allies would have to take a cut in their share to accommodate the new partner.
Hours after the announcement, Kushwaha created a stir with his “unscheduled meet” with RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav at Arwal in Bihar. Earlier too, he had hinted that all was not well within the ruling coalition with his “kheer” remark. “One can prepare kheer with milk from the Yadavs and rice from the Kushwahas,” he had said.
Kushwaha also declined the BJP’s invitation to attend an NDA allies meet scheduled for later in the day. He is expected to join a new alliance along with the Congress, RJD and Sharad Yadav’s newly formed Loktantrik Janshakti Party.
The first signs of a rift between Kushwaha and BJP emerged after party chief Amit Shah, in a joint press conference with JD(U) chief Nitish Kumar, in October announced that both parties would contest an equal number of seats in 2019 elections and smaller allies would have to take a cut in their share to accommodate the new partner.
Hours after the announcement, Kushwaha created a stir with his “unscheduled meet” with RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav at Arwal in Bihar. Earlier too, he had hinted that all was not well within the ruling coalition with his “kheer” remark. “One can prepare kheer with milk from the Yadavs and rice from the Kushwahas,” he had said.