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RLSP chief Upendra Kushwaha ties up with BSP for Bihar assembly election
Over the past few days, Upendra Kushwaha is learnt to have initiated talks with the BJP to re-enter the NDA, with no success.
Published on Sep 30, 2020 02:27 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Patna | HT Correspondent
Be ready for Nitish’s ‘dhokha number 2’: Kushwaha warns BJP
Upendra Kushwaha was talking to reporters here after a meeting of his party to discuss the just-concluded Lok Sabha polls.
Updated on Jun 03, 2019 12:42 PM IST
Patna | Press Trust of India
All 3 lawmakers of Upendra Kushwaha’s party join Nitish Kumar’s JD(U)
Letters to this effect have been forwarded by two RLSP MLAs—Lalan Paswan and Sudhanshu Shekhar—and MLC Sanjiv Singh Shyam on Friday.
Updated on May 27, 2019 08:25 AM IST
Patna | Press Trust of India
Former MLA hears aloud Kushwaha’s call to arms, flees home as cops knock
“A case for violation of model code of conduct and another under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code has been registered against Yadav. He would be arrested and his arms licence cancelled,” Kaimur district magistrate Nawal Kishor Chaudhary said.
Published on May 23, 2019 05:15 AM IST
Bhabua | Prasun K Mishra
Lok Sabha elections 2019: Amid caste cacophony in Jehanabad, talks of development become gradually muted
Ramdhani Sharma of Kurtha village, along with other villagers are sitting on a podium built under a peepal tree, playing cards. The buzz of elections is missing this time.
Updated on May 17, 2019 01:57 PM IST
Lok Sabha elections 2019: RLSP MP Ram Kumar Sharma floats his own faction
The Sitamarhi MP, who has been the party’s “chief whip” in the Lok Sabha and chairman of the parliamentary board, made the announcement, saying, “I will write to the Election Commission to recognize RLSP (Ram Kumar Sharma) as a separate group.”
Published on Apr 09, 2019 12:55 AM IST
Patna | Press Trust of India
Lok Sabha elections 2019: NDA looks for repeat of 2014 performance against Oppn alliance
The BJP and its allies, the Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) of Ram Vilas Paswan and Upendra Kushwaha’s Rashtriya Lok Samata Party (RLSP), won 31 out of 40 Lok Sabha seats in 2014.
Updated on Apr 06, 2019 10:58 AM IST
New Delhi | Kumar Uttam
Kushwaha announces list of candidates, will himself contest from two seats in LS polls
“A deadly attack was made on me in the state capital when I took out a march after quitting the NDA. I want to teach a lesson to those people. My mission is to defeat the NDA,” Rashtriya Lok Samata Party (RLSP) chief Upendra Kushwaha said.
Updated on Apr 04, 2019 12:27 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Patna | Rakesh Singh
In Bihar grand alliance deal, a climb down for Congress and a Lalu Yadav imprint
The Congress having made a climb down from its demand of 11 seats and had to forgo its traditional Aurangabad seat as coalition leaders today announced that the seat had gone to HAM(S) led by Jitan Ram Manjhi.
Updated on Mar 22, 2019 08:49 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Patna | Anirban Guha Roy
Lok Sabha elections 2019: RJD to contest 20, Cong 9 seats in Bihar Grand Alliance poll pact
Lok Sabha Elections 2019: According to the poll pact announced in Patna on Friday, Sharad Yadav has decided to contest on RJD’s lantern symbol and will merge his party Loktantrik Janata Dal with Lalu’s party after elections.
Updated on Mar 22, 2019 07:27 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | HT Correspondent
Upendra Kushwaha injured in lathi charge, Opposition calls for Bihar bandh
After being hit on his head and right hand, he was rushed to the Patna Medical College Hospital (PMCH) where he is convalescing. Party workers said Kushwaha had fainted for a while after being hit by the police lathis.
Updated on Feb 03, 2019 12:03 AM IST
Patna | Anil Kumar
In grand alliance, Upendra Kushwaha may face battle for his Lok Sabha seat
One Rashtriya Lok Samata Party (RLSP) MP and two MLAs have already ditched party president Upendra Kushwaha in NDA’s favour. Now, some important RJD leaders have raised serious doubts about Kushwaha’s stability in the Mahagathbanhan, or the Grand Alliance (GA).
Published on Dec 25, 2018 10:46 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Sasaram | Prasun K Mishra
Kushwaha camp elated with BJP’s defeat in state assembly polls
Though the party president Upendra Kushwaha, along with his party office-bearers will decide on the future course of action--whether to move to UPA-- party workers are happy that the decision to pull out came before the results were announced.
Updated on Dec 12, 2018 09:10 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Patna | Vijay Swaroop
Upendra Kushwaha may sever ties with NDA, final announcement today
The Upendra Kushwaha-led Rashtriya Lok Samata Party is likely to sever ties with the NDA and a formal announcement would be made on Thursday, a party leader said. Kushwaha is also likely to put in his papers as union minister of state for HRD.
Updated on Dec 06, 2018 12:09 AM IST
Valmiki Nagar (Bihar) | Press Trust of India
This Bollywood set designer may upset many political equations in Bihar in run-up to 2019 Lok Sabha polls
Bollywood set designer Mukesh Sahni recently floated the Vikasheel Insaan Party and is the national president of Nishaad Vikas Sangh. With Upendra Kushwaha-led RLSP almost deciding to distance itself from the NDA, Sahni may soon replace him in the NDA.
Updated on Nov 23, 2018 08:15 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Patna | Vijay Swaroop
‘Not respectable,’says Upendra Kushwaha on BJP’s seat sharing offer
He did not disclose the number of seats offered to the RLSP, saying he would not speak about it before a seat-sharing agreement is reached by NDA constituents in Bihar by November 30.
Updated on Nov 17, 2018 04:38 PM IST
Patna | Press Trust of India
Another RLSP leader shot dead, Kushwaha hits out at Nitish govt’s law and order record
The third RLSP leader to killed in the state since April, Amit Kumar Bhushan was shot dead at a cultural programme in Patna district where the local station house officer and other policemen were also present.
Updated on Nov 15, 2018 08:16 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Patna | Avinash Kumar
CM’s chair no rasgulla: JD(U) trashes Kushwaha’s claim on Nitish Kumar
A day after the Rashtriya Lok Samata Party (RLSP) chief claimed Nitish Kumar had told him that he did not want to stay as chief minister after the 2020 elections, the Janata Dal (United) said that Nitish Kumar was chosen by the people and would remain in the post as the state and the people need him.
Updated on Nov 02, 2018 09:24 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Patna | Vijay Swaroop
Upendra Kushwaha again. Says Nitish Kumar doesn’t want to be CM in 2020
It was not the first time Rashtriya Lok Samata Party chief Upendra Kushwaha has raised the issue of Nitish Kumar’s future as chief minister. In July, he had questioned the logic of going with Kumar as National Democratic Alliance’s chief ministerial candidate for the 2020 state assembly polls.
Updated on Nov 01, 2018 11:06 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Patna | Vijay Swaroop
After Paswan and Athawale, Union minister Upendra Kushwaha seeks NGT chief’s removal
Before Kushwaha, Union ministers Ram Vilas Paswan and Ramdas Athawale had sought removal of AK Goel’s removal as NGT chairman.
Updated on Jul 30, 2018 01:18 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | HT Correspondent
Union minister Upendra Kushwaha skips another BJP-hosted dinner, gets invite to join Grand Alliance
Rashtriya Lok Samata Party leader and union minister Upendra Kushwaha on Friday sought to downplay his absence at a get-together of senior NDA leaders in Patna the previous night which he said was due to “personal reasons” and asserted that the coalition was “intact”.
Updated on Jun 08, 2018 10:31 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Patna | Arun Kumar
BJP’s unity feast for NDA allies in Bihar was just dinner, no discussion
The dinner was keenly watched following the JD(U) seeking a prominent role for the party in the Lok Sabha polls.
Updated on Jun 08, 2018 03:49 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Patna | Vijay Swaroop and Anil Kumar
Collegium system preventing Dalits, OBCs from entering higher judiciary: HRD MoS Kushwaha
Union minister Upendra Kushwaha said that under the existing collegium system, neither the SCs/STs, the OBCs nor the poor among the upper castes are getting a chance to enter the higher judiciary on the basis of merit.
Updated on May 14, 2018 09:10 AM IST
Press Trust of India, Patna | Press Trust of India