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New Delhi [India], August 10 (ANI): As Nitish Kumar took oath as Bihar's Chief Minister for the eighth time after severing ties with the BJP, Rashtriya Lok Janshakti Party (RLJP) president Pashupati Paras on Wednesday said that in politics new equations are made and also deteriorate so the party has to wait and watch the situation.

New Delhi [India], July 8 (ANI): RJD chief and former Bihar CM Lalu Prasad Yadav was taken to AIIMS Delhi where he's under treatment. His daughter Misa Bharti confirmed his stable condition on Friday.

Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], May 9 (ANI): The Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party (SBSP) national president Om Prakash Rajbhar on Sunday said the Opposition parties will form a huge alliance to defeat the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led alliance in the 2024 Lok Sabha election.

Patna Feb 21 PTI Former Bihar deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi a BJP leader on whose petition the Patna High Court had ordered a CBI investigation into fodder scam on Monday rubbished charges of political vendetta levelled against his party by supporters of RJD president Lalu Prasad Modi now a Rajya Sabha member came out with a video of himself reacting to the order of a CBI court in Ranchi which sentenced Prasad to five years in jail besides slapping him with a fine of Rs 60 lakh The BJP leader pointed out that the first charge sheet against Prasad was filled during the premiership of H D Deve Gowda whose United Front government depended on Prasad for its survival He also recalled that the first time the Prasad got convicted was during the tenure of Manmohan Singh when the Congress-led UPA remained in power with the RJDs unflinching support The BJP leader who remains in news for his exposes against Prasad and his family also lent credence to former boss Nitish Kumars contention that many who had filed cases accusing Prasad of corruption were now his close aides Those who had filed PILs against Lalu ji besides me included Shivanand Tiwary Vrishan Patel and Prem Chandra Mishra said Modi Tiwary is currently a national vice president of the RJD and his son is enjoying a second term as party MLA Vrishan Patel is a party-hopper who is currently a state vice president of the RJD Prem Chandra Mishra is an MLC of the Congress The sight of Lalu ji going to jail at this ripe age fills me with pain But this is not the first occasion He has been previously convicted in four cases of the fodder scam said Modi who has closely known Prasad since the 1970s when they held top posts in Patna University Students Union Modi added it is high time Lalu jis well-wishers gave up whining that he has been framed phansaya gaya hai It is an order of the court and judges are not BJP appointees PTI NAC MM MM

Patna Oct 27 PTI Confusion prevailed over Congress-RJD tie-up in Bihar on Wednesday when Lalu Prasad hinted at a thaw following a telephonic talk with Sonia Gandhi but AICC in-charge of the state Bhakt Charan Das accused the former chief minister of misleading people on the final day of campaign for by-elections Prasad had told reporters here before leaving for Tarapur and Kusheshwar Asthan assembly constituencies that during his congenial conversation with Gandhi he told her that she headed a party with an all India presence and asked her to hold a meeting of like-minded outfits to take on the BJP A few hours later Bhakt Charan Das who was recently at the receiving end of the RJD supremos acerbic tongue told a press conference he Lalu is misleading the people There has been no rapprochement Had it been so I would have received instructions to back the RJD candidate in Tarapur where we have fielded our candidate in protest against their betrayal of coalition dharma in Kusheshwar Asthan Das claimed that his party which has been marginalised in the states politics over the years had stunned the RJD as well as Chief Minister Nitish Kumars JDU by the aggressive manner in which it has approached the by-elections to the two assembly seats The result is that in Tarapur we are getting a good response while in Kusheshwar Asthan which we lost last year by just over 6000 votes we are winning back sections of the society which had become estranged because of our alliance with the RJD he asserted To a pointed query as to whether he was refuting Prasad having spoken to Gandhi Das said I am Sonia jis representative hereI am clearly stating his claim of any political discussions with AICC president is baseless They have dishonoured the alliance And now there will be no further tie-ups We will contest all 40 Lok Sabha seats also He however added we cannot say what will happen post-polls in 2024 and expressed annoyance over RJD having unilaterally decided to contest both seats despite being aware that the Congress would have liked to fight Kusheshwar Asthan I had met Lalu ji in Delhi a few months ago to enquire about his health He never bothered to have a word with me despite our personal equations about the by-polls To top it all he abused me and now he is trying to mislead people said Das recalling Prasads infamous use of Bihari pejorative bhakchonhar fool or stupid which the Congress has sought to portray as the insult of a dalit leader Replying to another query he said I may or may not meet Lalu Prasad in my personal capacity in future We do not cease to be social beings because of political differences I have excellent personal relations with Chief Minister Nitish Kumar whom I have never been able to meet despite spending so much time in Bihar It is widely speculated that Prasad had snubbed the Congress because of induction of former CPI leader Kanhaiya Kumar who hails from Bihar and is seen as a potential rival to the formers son and heir apparent Tejashwi Yadav Kanhaiya has notably campaigned intensively in both seats and hurled indirect barbs at the RJD along with the NDA which is currently in power blaming those who have ruled Bihar in the last 30 years for the states current plight A section of Congress leaders has also claimed that a possibility of the party regaining its support base among upper castes has always irked Prasad who is wary of emergence of a secular alternative to the RJD Kanhaiya Kumar is an upper caste Bhumihar an influential community which dominated the Congress when it was a power to reckon with but following its decline has gravitated towards the BJP PTI PKD NAC SK SK