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Former Janata Dal-United (JD-U) person K.C. Tyagi connected Sunday (March 22, 2026) formally joined the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) successful the beingness of enactment main and Union Minister Jayant Chaudhary successful New Delhi.
Mr. Tyagi, a founding subordinate of the JD(U), did not enactment successful the party’s rank renewal drive, signalling his exit from the JD(U) connected March 17.
He had clarified astatine that clip helium held nary animus regarding the JD(U) oregon Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, who has been elected to the Rajya Sabha, making it wide that helium would not beryllium remaining CM successful the State successful future.
Mr. Tyagi besides addressed speculation regarding his parliamentary ambitions, denying that his exit was linked to a tendency for a spot successful the Rajya Sabha. “There is not a azygous lawsuit of maine trying for a Rajya Sabha ticket. Even successful 2013, Nitish Kumar called maine and offered maine a ticket,” helium said.
“I person a 50-year-old narration with Nitish Kumar. In Jayaprakash-ji’s movement, past successful the Janata Party, Lok Dal, and past nether Karpoori-ji’s leadership, we did authorities together,” helium said. He had told The Hindu successful a video interrogation recorded aft his exit from the JD(U) that helium wanted to regain his governmental crushed successful Uttar Pradesh, and with the JD(U) restricted to Bihar, helium recovered helium could not bash truthful successful that party.
Mr. Tyagi had earlier resigned arsenic the JD(U)’s nationalist main spokesperson successful September 2024.
