PATNA: JD(U)’s national parliamentary board chairman Upendra Kushwaha’s countdown in the party seems to have started as Bihar CM and party’s de facto leader Nitish Kumar, while responding to a query about Kushwaha, on Saturday said that every people has the right to go wherever he/she wants.
Kushwaha, who is currently admitted to AIIMS-Delhi for a routine check-up, was on Friday visited by state BJP’s three leaders including Prem Ranjan Patel, Sanjay Singh Tiger and Yogendra Paswan, triggering a speculation about the JD(U) leader’s return to the BJP-led NDA fold. Kushwaha’s erstwhile party RLSP was earlier an ally of the NDA and he himself served as Union minister of state for HRD in the Narendra Modi government from 2014 to 2018.
