Image Source : PTI Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and JD(U) National President RCP Singh (R) greet newly elected social gathering state President Umesh Kushwaha (C) in the course of the second day of social gathering state council assembly, in Patna.
Former legislator Umesh Kushwaha was on Sunday unanimously elected because the Janata Dal (United) Bihar unit president, in a bid to strengthen the ruling social gathering’s previous “Luv-Kush” help base. Election of Kushwaha, a former social gathering MLA from Mahnar meeting constituency in Vaishali district, was ratified on the partys state council assembly in Patna.
“Party’s Bihar unit Chief Bashishtha Narayan Singh proposed name of Kushwaha for partys state president post which was unanimously approved by members present in the meeting,” senior chief and MP Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan Singh instructed reporters right here at a press convention within the social gathering workplace.
Choice of Umesh Kushwaha alerts the ruling social gathering going again to its unique help base of “Luv-Kush” (OBC Kurmi and Kushwaha castes mixture).
Since 2005 when the JD(U)-BJP collectively uprooted RJD from the ability in Bihar, Kumar himself a Kurmi by caste has been leveraging Luv-Kush equation to nook main portion of non-Yadav OBC castes within the Bihar poliotics.
Yadavs type bulk of the OBC votes in Bihar politics at practically 14 %. But, kumar by bringing collectively two different OBC castes of Kumri and Kushwaha elevated his base to round 12-14 per cent, to counter Lalu Prasad.
Election of 46-year-old Kushwaha additionally displays social gathering going for younger management apparently to blunt the assault of Tejashwi Yadav of the RJD and Chirag Paswan who heads Lok Janshakti Party.
Kushwaha succeeds septuagenarian Bashishtha Narayan Singh because the JD(U) Bihar unit president.
Recently, Kumar himself stepped down because the JD(U) nationwide president and named his shut confidant RCP Singh as his successor.
Kushwaha contested the 2020 meeting elections on JD(U) ticket from Mahnar meeting constituency however misplaced to the RJD candidate.
He had received the 2015 state polls from the identical Mahnar seat defeating his BJP rival then.
Lalan Singh was speaking to reporters on the selections taken on the assembly of state government and state council previously two days.
Singh stated that Bashishtha Narayan Singh expressed his willingness to be relieved of the social gathering chief’s accountability and proposed Kushwaha’s title for the submit which was permitted by the state council.
Singh stated that he’ll proceed to information the social gathering as “Margdarshak”, Singh, the JD(U)’s chief in Lok Sabha, stated.
Speaking on the event, the newly elected state president, thanked Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and social gathering’s nationwide president RCP Singh for posing religion in him and asserted that he would attempt to dwell upto their expectations by working laborious to strengthen the social gathering.
Kushwaha stated youths shall be given alternative within the social gathering whose organisational construction will additional be strengthened upto village stage.
