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RLD main Jayant Chaudhary with KC Tyagi (PTI photo)
NEW DELHI: Senior JD(U) person KC Tyagi connected Sunday pledged to transportation guardant erstwhile Prime Minister Chaudhary Charan Singh’s bequest aft joining the Rashtriya Lok Dal, aft parting mode from the Nitish Kumar-led party, which has been astatine the helm of the Bihar authorities for the past 2 decades nether main curate Nitish Kumar.However, Tyagi’s governmental basal lies successful occidental Uttar Pradesh, acold from JD(U)’s stronghold successful Bihar. Meanwhile, the RLD, besides an NDA ally, has been successful power successful Uttar Pradesh, particularly successful the occidental region, carrying guardant the bequest of Chaudhary Charan Singh nether the enactment of his grandson, Jayant Chaudhary.Tyagi said his determination reflects continuity alternatively than change, stressing that determination is nary quality betwixt JD(U) and the RLD, portion recalling past efforts by Nitish Kumar and Chaudhary Ajit Singh to travel unneurotic politically.
Speaking to ANI, Tyagi said, "I began my governmental vocation with the Lok Dal itself. This is conscionable its archetypal form; there's thing caller successful it... We volition assistance fulfil the imagination that Chaudhary Charan Singh near behind... There is nary quality betwixt JD(U) and RLD. There was a clip erstwhile Nitish Kumar and Chaudhary Ajit Singh were acceptable to signifier a enactment together. There is nary quality betwixt these two."Tyagi formally joined the RLD successful New Delhi successful the beingness of enactment president and Union curate Jayant Chaudhary.
The seasoned socialist leader, a founding subordinate of JD(U), had resigned from the enactment connected March 17.Earlier this week, Tyagi said helium did not instrumentality portion successful the party’s latest rank drive, clarifying that determination is nary idiosyncratic friction betwixt him and Bihar main curate Nitish Kumar implicit the Rajya Sabha spot allocation.Maintaining that his ties with the enactment stay intact, Tyagi said his "relationship with Nitish Kumar and the Bihar JDU remains the same"."I americium the laminitis of Janata Dal (United) alongside George Fernandes, Sharad Yadav, Nitish Kumar, and Digvijay Singh... I person been a subordinate ever since. However, I did not enactment successful this rank drive," helium said.The elder person besides addressed speculation astir his parliamentary ambitions, denying that his exit was linked to immoderate bid for a Rajya Sabha seat. "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," said Tyagi.
