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  • Former MLA Umesh Kushwaha appointed Bihar JD(U) president

    BARELY A fortnight after Rajya Sabha member R C P Singh was made the nationwide president of the JD(U), the social gathering on Sunday picked former MLA Umesh Kushwaha as its new state president, changing the ailing Bashistha Narayan Singh.
    The elevation of low-profile Vaishali chief to the put up of the state president has come as a shock to many as he was not counted amongst even second-rung JD(U) leaders.
    With R C P Singh, an OBC Kurmi chief, because the social gathering nationwide president and Kushwaha, an OBC Koeri chief, because the social gathering’s state president, the JD(U) seems to be attempting to cater to its core Luv-Kush help base, as the mix of the 2 caste teams has come to be recognized in state political circles.
    JD(U) spokesperson Neeraj Kumar informed The Indian Express: “Umesh Kushwaha has been a committed party worker. His elevation to the post of state president has shown that a small worker can rise to a senior level in the party structure.”
    Asked if the social gathering has been focusing an excessive amount of on the Luv-Kush issue, Kumar stated: “The JD (U) gives representation to all sections of society. There is no need to read between the lines as the party has leaders from all caste groups holding prominent positions in the party and in the government.”

    Kushwaha, who received Assembly elections from Mahnar in Vaishali within the 2015 elections, misplaced to RJD’s Veena Singh within the 2020 polls. Sources stated the social gathering first mentioned the title of former minister Ramsevak Singh, additionally from the identical caste, for the state president put up however settled for Kushwaha within the ultimate moments at its state govt.
    Although the JD(U) had full-time state president in Bashisha Narayan Singh, he was not in a position to take care of day-to-day affairs of the social gathering due to ill-health. Ashok Kumar Choudhary had been functioning because the state president for someday.

  • Umesh Kushwaha is new Bihar JDU president

    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.