Patna: Former JDU lawmakers Santosh Kushwaha and Rahul Sharma joined the Opposition RJD on Friday ahead of the assembly elections in Bihar. Kushwaha and Sharma joined RJD in the presence of its leader Tejashwi Yadav.
Kushwaha had won the Purnea Lok Sabha seat for the JDU twice on the trot, but lost to Independent candidate Pappu Yadav last year.
Sharma is a former MLA from Ghosi in Jehanabad district and the son of Jagdish Sharma, a political heavyweight from the area. He had won the seat for a record eight terms, as an Independent as well as on tickets of Janata Party, BJP and JDU. Lok Janshakti Party leader Ajay Kushwaha, and JDU Banka MP Girdhari Prasad Yadav's son Chanaykya Prasad Ranjan also joined the RJD.
Kushwaha had won the Purnea Lok Sabha seat for the JDU twice on the trot, but lost to Independent candidate Pappu Yadav last year.
Sharma is a former MLA from Ghosi in Jehanabad district and the son of Jagdish Sharma, a political heavyweight from the area. He had won the seat for a record eight terms, as an Independent as well as on tickets of Janata Party, BJP and JDU. Lok Janshakti Party leader Ajay Kushwaha, and JDU Banka MP Girdhari Prasad Yadav's son Chanaykya Prasad Ranjan also joined the RJD.
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