AMN / PATNA
Upendra Kushwaha today resigned from Janata Dal (United) and launched a new political party Rashtriya Lok Janata Dal (RLJD). He has also resigned from the post of MLC. Kushwaha said he has taken this decision after two days of meeting with workers in Patna.
Talking to reporters after resignation, Upendra Kushwaha said barring a few, everyone in the JDU was expressing concern. Mr Kushwaha alleged Nitish Kumar did good in beginning but in the end, the path on which he started walking is bad for him and Bihar.
Mr. Kushwaha will be the national president of the new party.
The former Union Minister, however, kept cards close to the chest on the issue of realigning with the BJP-led NDA, with the sarcastic remark “I have learnt a few lessons from my big brother, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, who had resigned from his post citing differences with the RJD, only to form a new government (with BJP) hours later”.
Mr. Kushwaha accused Mr. Kumar of having “pawned” (‘girvi rakh diya’) his political capital, and expressed anguish over having declared Deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav of the RJD, whom he did not mention by name, as the future leader.