Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal United on Thursday inducted 208 senior leaders of the Lok Janshakti Party, executing what many said was revenge for the Chirag Paswan-led outfit’s move to queer the pitch for the JDU in the Assembly elections last year.
Sources said this was just the beginning of Nitish’s “operation” against the LJP and that several of its MPs and the lone MLA of the party could follow suit.
Those who joined the JDU included dozens of state general secretaries, 18 district presidents, district vice-presidents, heads of various cells of the party, spokespersons, leaders of frontal outfit Dalit Sena and many of those who contested the Assembly elections in October-November.
LJP leader Keshav Singh and others joins JD[U] in presence of National President RCP Singh at JD[U] party office in Patna on Thursday.
PATNA: Chirag Paswan-led Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) on Thursday received a major jolt in Bihar as its around 200 senior leaders and workers, led by its former state general secretary Keshav Singh, quit the party and joined the ruling JD(U).
The disgruntled LJP leaders joined the ruling JD(U) in presence of its national president and Rajya Sabha member RCP Singh. The joining event took place at the JD(U) state office here.
Earlier on Wednesday, LJP’s senior leader Rameshwar Chourasia who contested the 2020 assembly polls from Sasaram constituency, left the party. Chourasia, a former MLA, was earlier with the BJP and had won Nokha assembly seat thrice on the BJP ticket. He had joined the LJP before the last assembly polls after the BJP denied him the party symbol to contest the election.