This story is from November 22, 2018

Former RLSP functionary joins JD(U)

Former RLSP functionary joins JD(U)
PATNA: Former RLSP functionary and Rashtrawadi Jan Congress (RJC) national president Shambhu Nath Sinha, who had been opposing the caste-based quota system and favouring reservation on economical ground, joined the JD (U) on Wednesday. He was inducted in the party by JD (U) state president Bashishtha Narain Singh at a function held at the party office here.
Sinha, along with hundreds of his supporters, reached the JD (U) office with a band party and announced merger of his RJC in the JD (U).
Singh inducted Sinha in the JD (U) by offering him the party membership.
While talking to reporters at Barahia (Lakhisarai) in April this year, Sinha had demanded review of the current reservation system. He had said that reservation should be done on the basis of poverty and not caste. Sinha had also said that influential people like CM Nitish Kumar, Union ministers Ram Vilas Paswan and Upendra Kushwaha and former CM Jitan Ram Manjhi should not be allowed to get benefits of the caste-based quota system.
Incidentally, Nitish has repeatedly been stating that no one on the earth has power to end the existing caste-based reservation system for members of SC/ST communities in the country.
Sinha, also known for frequently changing political parties, had launched the RJC in 2015 after being suspended from Kushwaha-led Rashtriya Lok Samta Party (RLSP).
The RLSP suspended him from all party posts in September 2015 for opposing the caste-based quota system. After that Sinha launched the RJC to spearhead an agitation to oppose caste-based quota system and demand reservation for poor among the upper castes on economical ground.

Responding to a query from TOI, Sambhu Nath Sinha said he had not joined the JD (U) to seek party symbol for either Lok Sabha or the 2020 assembly election. “I met Nitishji nearly 10 days ago and offered him to utilise my services in the party in whichever way the CM desires,” Sinha told TOI.
Prior to joining the RLSP in March 2014, Sinha was in the Congress. He had joined Congress in the presence of then state Congress chief Ashok Choudhary on June 13, 2014 after deserting the JD(U), but he could not remain with the Congress even for nine months.
Sinha, who was also a general secretary and spokesperson in the JD (U) between 2008 and 2013, left Nitish’s party after his difference with the CM on demand of a CBI probe into the murder of banned Ranvir Sena chief Brahmeshwar Mukhia at Ara. Mukhiya was shot dead on June 1, 2012.
Before JD (U), Sinha was state general secretary and spokesperson of Congress between 2000 and 2008. Prior to that, he was the state general secretary of the Samata Party between 1996 and 2000.
End of Article
FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA