Patna, May 26
After drawing a blank in the Lok Sabha elections, former Union Minister Upendra Kushwaha’s Rashtriya Lok Samata Party (RLSP) today received yet another setback as all three of its members in the bicameral legislature joined Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s JD-U.
Assembly Speaker Vijay Kumar Chaudhary and legislative council Deputy Chairman Haroon Rashid said on Friday, two RLSP MLAs — Lalan Paswan and Sudhanshu Shekhar— and MLC Sanjiv Singh Shyam had sent letters to this effect. “The legislators have also appended letters of approval from the JD-U. They have been asked to appear in person for completing formalities. Henceforth, they shall be treated as JD-U legislators,” Chaudhary and Rashid said.
Notably, the RLSP legislators had earlier revolted against Kushwaha’s decision to snap ties with the NDA and join the Mahagathbandhan. They announced they would remain with the ruling coalition and seek recognition from the Election Commission as the “real” RLSP.
The stupendous victory of the NDA in the Lok Sabha polls, wherein it won all but one of the 40 seats in the state, appears to have made the dissident RLSP legislators realise that it was safer to join the CM’s party, which contested 17 seats and bagged 16, than seeking recognition as a separate group. — pti
from The Tribune http://bit.ly/2HW83da
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