Bihar CM Nitish Kumar felicitates RLSP president Upendra Kushwaha after the occasion merged with JD(U) in Patna on March 14.
Less than per week after Upendra Kushwaha merged the Rashtriya Lok Samta Party (RLSP) with the Janata Dal (United), the Nitish Kumar-led authorities really useful to the Governor to nominate him to the Legislative Council.
Bihar Governor Phagu Chauhan has nominated 12 members to the Vidhan Parishad. Besides Kushwaha, 11 others embody Ashok Choudhary, Ram Bachan Rai, Janak Ram, Sanjay Kumar Singh, Lallan Kumar Saraf, Rajendra Prasad Gupta, Sanjay Singh, Devendra Kumar, Pramod Kumar, Ghanshyam Thakur and Nivedita Singh. Ashok Choudhary and Janak Ram are ministers within the Nitish Kumar authorities.
While two of the 12 seats had been mendacity vacant since May 2019 after Rajiv Ranjan Singh and Pashupati Kumar Paras resigned following their election to the Lok Sabha, the remaining 10 fell vacant in May 2020.
The Bihar Legislative Council includes 75 chairs. The Article 171(3)(e) of the Constitution empowers the Governor to nominate 12 members to the House. The tenure of MLCs lasts for six years.
The JD(U) acquired a shot within the arm on Sunday with the merger of RLSP of Upendra Kushwaha, a former protege of Nitish Kumar who got here again underneath his wing 9 years after having fallen aside.
Soon after he was inducted into the JD(U), Kumar introduced Kushwaha’s appointment because the nationwide parliamentary board president ‘with fast impact’.
Kushwaha, who brings on desk his assist base of the sizeable Koeri caste, vowed to make the JD(U) the primary occasion in Bihar. He mentioned that after having been witness to many ups and downs because the RLSP chief, he regarded ahead to making use of his expertise underneath the steering of Nitish Kumar who’s a Kurmi, a caste that’s numerically small however very influential by advantage of being economically and educationally superior.
Kushwaha was in political wilderness since his exit from NDA in 2017. He give up the RJD-led Grand Alliance forward of the meeting elections final 12 months.
