Bihar assembly polls: RJD MLA, former Union minister, former MLC and others join ruling JD(U)

PATNA: Several leaders of different political parties on Tuesday joined the ruling JD(U) in the presence of either CM Nitish Kumar or the JD(U) state president Bashishtha Narain Singh.
The prominent among those who joined the JD(U), include the RJD MLA Md Nematullah, former Union minister Dasai Chaudhary, former MLC Anuj Kumar Singh and the Congress' Sitamarhi district president Vimal Shukla.
While former MLC Anuj Singh joined the ruling party in the presence of CM Nitish Kumar and JD(U) state working President Ashok Choudhary, Md Nematullah and Dasai took membership of the party from the JD(U) state president Bashishtha Narain Singh.
“Anuj Singh, who was elected as MLC in the previous term from the Gaya-Jehanabad-Arwal local authority seat, was appointed state vice president of the JD(U) soon after joining the new party,” JD(U) state general secretary and spokesperson Pragati Mehta told TOI on Tuesday.
Anuj was elected as the MLC from JD(U). But later, he joined the BJP. Anuj came in the limelight again in March 2019 when an armed group of Maoists attacked his ancestral home at his native village Bodhibigha in Gaya district.
Md Nematulllah, the RJD’s sitting MLA from Barauli in Gopalganj district, decided to leave the Lalu Prasad’s party after he was denied the party ticket to contest the current election. The RJD has fielded one Riyazul Haque from Barauli seat.
Dasai Chaudhary, a well-known turncoat and party hopper, also was in the RJD last time. Earlier he had travelled to all parties right from Congress to BJP to the RLSP to RJD.
Dasai, who was a Union minister in the Chandrashekhar government in 1990s, said that he would work as a humble cadre and discharge duties assigned to him by the JD(U) leadership. He was once Lok Sabha member from Rosera (SC) seat.
Then a member of the Congress party, Dasai came into the media limelight in September 2013, when he went to Gujarat and met Narendra Modi in Ahmedabad with the RJD supremo Lalu Prasad’s brother in-law Sadhu Yadav. Both were then expelled by the Congress on the charges of “indulging in the anti-party activities by way of meeting the then Gujarat CM Narendra Modi.”