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Former Jehanabad MP Arun Kumar, who had for immoderate clip been a bitter professional of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, connected Saturday (October 11, 2025) returned to the JD(U).
The 66-year-old person was inducted into the party, on with respective supporters, successful the beingness of JD(U) moving president Sanjay Kumar Jha, Union Minister Rajiv Ranjan Singh 'Lalan' and State portion main Umesh Kushwaha.
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Speaking connected the occasion, Lalan, a erstwhile nationalist president of JD(U), said, "We conscionable saw Arun Kumar and Chandeshwar Chandravanshi stock a lukewarm hug. They volition bring a tempest [tufaan] successful the full Magadh region." Notably, Chandravanshi had wrested the Jehanabad spot from Arun Kumar successful 2019 by a slender borderline of astir 2,000 votes. The cardinal Bihar seat, which is astatine contiguous with the RJD, was won by Arun Kumar for the JD(U) successful 1999.
A temperamental person who had deed the headlines erstwhile helium vowed to "break the ribs of Nitish Kumar" aft quitting the JD(U), Arun Kumar won the Jehanabad spot again successful 2014, connected a summons of RLSP, a breakaway radical headed by Upendra Kushwaha.
He fought with Mr. Kushwaha soon afterwards and floated his ain outfit Bharatiya Sab Log Party which failed to marque an interaction successful 2020 assembly polls and the Lok Sabha polls past year.
Arun Kumar's re-induction is being seen arsenic an effort to neutralise the harm that whitethorn person been caused by different precocious caste Bhumihar person from Jehanabad, Rahul Sharma, jumping ship.
Mr. Sharma, a erstwhile JD(U) MLA from Ghosi, had connected Friday joined the RJD successful the beingness of Tejashwi Yadav.
His begetter Jagdish Sharma is simply a heavyweight of the country who had represented Ghosi a grounds 8 times arsenic an Independent campaigner and connected tickets of Janata Party, Congress and BJP, too having won, successful 2009, the Jehanabad Lok Sabha spot for JD(U).
