PATNA: Former Union minister Upendra Kushwaha resigned as a member of the Bihar legislative council on Friday, just four days after quitting Bihar CM Nitish Kumar’s JD(U) and floating a new political party — the Rashtriya Lok Janata Dal (RLJD).
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His current term in the council was to expire on March 16, 2027.
Kushwaha reached the council on Friday afternoon and handed over his resignation letter to the council's chairperson Devesh Chandra Thakur.
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Earlier, while quitting the JD(U) on Monday, Kushwaha had announced to resign as MLC after taking an appointment from the council’s chairperson.
Kushwaha was nominated as the council member from the governor’s quota on March 17, 2021, just three days after he merged his eight-year-old erstwhile Rashtriya Lok Samata Party (RLSP) into the JD(U) and formally joined Nitish’s party.
“Mukhyamantri Ji, twadiyam vastu tubhyamev samarpyate (Dear chief minister, I offer back what you had given to me),” Kushwaha said in a tweet written in Hindi and Sanskrit soon after resigning as the MLC.
In his Tweet, Kushwaha also said, “Today, I submitted my resignation as a member of the legislative council. Now, I am feeling light (Man Aab Halka Hai). I have a pleasant feeling of coming out of a ‘chakravyuh’ (a labyrinthine military formation). Now, I have moved on the path of a war, quitting the practice of making requests.”
Earlier on Wednesday, Kushwaha announced the launch of a “Virasat Bachao -Naman Yatra” from Mahatma Gandhi’s Bhitiharwa Ashram in West Champaran district on February 28.