Kushwaha is expected to join a new alliance along with the Congress, RJD and Sharad Yadav's newly formed Loktantrik Janshakti Party.
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Upendra Kushwaha quit his post as the Union Minister of
State for HRD. (Source: PTI/File)
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At loggerheads with the BJP over
seat-sharing for upcoming general elections, Rashtriya Lok Samta Party (RLSP)
leader Upendra Kushwaha Monday quit from his post as Union Minister of State
for Human Resource Development and walked out of the NDA alliance in Bihar and
the Centre.
In his resignation sent to Prime
Minister Narendra
Modi, Kushwaha accused the BJP of following the agenda of the RSS and
neglecting the cause of social justice. “The government has been toeing the agenda
of RSS which is anti-constitutional and neglecting and subverting the agenda of
social justice enshrined in the Constitution for which we have supported NDA,”
Kushwaha said in his resignation.
“My conscience doesn’t permit me
to be a part of a government that has failed to fulfil its promises and
betrayed the aspirations of our founding fathers of the Constitution,” he
added.
Kushwaha also declined the BJP’s
invitation to attend an NDA allies meet scheduled for later in the day. He is
expected to join a new alliance along with the Congress, RJD and Sharad Yadav’s
newly formed Loktantrik Janshakti Party.
The first signs of a rift between
Kushwaha and BJP emerged after party chief Amit Shah, in a joint press
conference with JD(U) chief Nitish Kumar, in
October announced that both parties would contest an equal number of seats in
2019 elections and smaller allies would have to take a cut in their share to
accommodate the new partner.
Hours after the announcement,
Kushwaha created a stir with his “unscheduled meet” with RJD leader Tejashwi
Yadav at Arwal in Bihar. Earlier too, he had hinted that all was not well
within the ruling coalition with his “kheer” remark. “One can prepare kheer with
milk from the Yadavs and rice from the Kushwahas,” he had said.
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