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Bihar: What Nitish Kumar and JD(U) Hope To Achieve Through Upendra Kushwaha’s Merger
The chief minister s party believes that the support of Koiris, the caste that Kushwaha belongs to, will re-energise it. But it may not be so simple.
Upendra Kushwaha and Nitish Kumar on March 14, 2021, after the former merged the RLSP with the JD(U). Photo: PTI
Politics15/Mar/2021
Patna: The merger of Upendra Kushwaha led Rashtriya Lok Samata Party (RLSP) into Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal (United) [JD(U)] is, apparently, part of the Bihar chief minister’s initiative to reach out to the Koiris – a backward caste that is electorally significant – to make up for the heavy losses that his party suffered in the 2020 assembly elections. ....

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