Upendra Kushwaha re-elected RLSP chief

“For last three years, the national council was not happening and no election took place. Kushwaha has done it in a haste to establish his authority. He is claiming that elections from panchayat to national council level were held for the party. How can that be possible in this short span of time. We are the real RLSP” Kumar told The Indian Express.

Meanwhile, a press release issued after the meeting by party leader Fazal Imam Mallick said Kushwaha was appointed unopposed as he was the lone candidate for the post of national president. He claimed that party delegates from Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Haryana, Rajasthan, Himachal Pradhes, Kerala, Bengal, Telangana, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Gujarat, participated in the council meet.

A week ago, Kushwaha had named Bhudeo Choudhary as the party’s Bihar unit chief in a state council meeting in Patna, a decision dubbed as illegal by the rival faction, which claimed that the party had removed Kushwaha from the post of national president at a meeting on August 17 and appointed Arun Kumar as the new party chief. On August 19, Kushwaha’s party, an ally of the NDA, had suspended MP Arun Kumar and MLA Lalan Paswan.