Janata Dal United

Former Bihar Education Minister Mewalal Choudhary Dies Of COVID-19

India News | ANI | Monday April 19, 2021

Former Bihar Education Minister and Janata Dal (United) MLA Mewalal Choudhary died today morning, party sources confirmed.

After 8 Years, Upendra Kushwaha's RLSP Returns to Nitish Kumar's JDU Fold

Bihar | Reported by Manish Kumar, Edited by Harish Pullanoor | Sunday March 14, 2021

Almost exactly eight years after he split away from the Janata Dal United (JDU), the Upendra Kushwaha-led Rashtriya Lok Samta Party (RLSP) came a full circle today as it merged into Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's party. The returning leader has been named the parent party's Parliamentary Board Chairperson. The formalities of the merger were to...

JDU Demands Fair Probe In Lok Sabha MP Mohan Delkar's Suicide

India News | ANI | Thursday February 25, 2021

Janata Dal (United) has asked for a fair probe into the death of Dadra and Nagar Haveli MP Mohan Delkar.

"You've Played In My Lap": Nitish Kumar Teases Tejashwi Yadav In Assembly

India News | Reported by Manish Kumar, Edited by Vaibhav Tiwari | Wednesday February 24, 2021

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Tuesday took a sharp jibe in the state assembly at Leader of Opposition Tejashwi Yadav, who had interrupted the Janata Dal United leader's speech in the house.

Nitish Kumar To Meet PM Modi In Parliament At 4 PM Today: JD(U) MP

India News | ANI | Thursday February 11, 2021

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Parliament at 4 pm today, informed Janata Dal (United) Lok Sabha MP from Nalanda, Kaushlendra Kumar.

BJP To Add More Ministers To Nitish Kumar's Cabinet In Bihar: Sources

India News | Reported by Manish Kumar, Edited by Deepshikha Ghosh | Tuesday February 2, 2021

The ruling BJP is discussing a cabinet expansion in Bihar, where more from the party are likely to join Nitish Kumar's government. The BJP has more ministers in the Bihar government than the Chief Minister's Janata Dal United (JDU) and will continue to do so, sources said today.

Nitish Kumar's Party To Run Against BJP In UP, Says "Everything's Fine"

India News | Reported by Himanshu Shekhar Mishra, Edited by Divyanshu Dutta Roy | Wednesday January 27, 2021

The Janata Dal-United (JDU) will contest next year's Uttar Pradesh elections separately from its Bihar ally BJP, the party announced on Wednesday, saying the decision had nothing to do with developments in Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's state where "everything is fine".

JD(U) Becomes First Major Bihar Party To Launch Own Mouthpiece

India News | Press Trust of India | Tuesday January 26, 2021

Janata Dal United on Monday became the first major party in Bihar to have its own mouthpiece, that will be published monthly both in Hindi as well as English.

Student Leader Of Nitish Kumar's Party Shot At In Patna

India News | ANI | Sunday January 17, 2021

Janata Dal (United) student wing leader Alok Tejashwi was allegedly shot at by criminals in Bakhtiarpur area of Patna on Sunday. He has been admitted in a hospital, the police said.

Umesh Kushwaha Is New Bihar JDU President

India News | Press Trust of India | Sunday January 10, 2021

Former legislator Umesh Kushwaha was on Sunday unanimously elected as the Janata Dal (United) Bihar unit president, in a bid to strengthen the ruling party's old support base.

Forget Assembly Poll Results, Look Ahead: Nitish Kumar Tells JDU Workers

India News | Press Trust of India | Saturday January 9, 2021

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Saturday urged workers of his Janata Dal (United) to look at the future banishing memories of the recent assembly elections in which the party suffered humiliating losses.

JDU Paid Price For Delay In Seat-Sharing Within NDA: Nitish Kumar

India News | ANI | Saturday January 9, 2021

Making an indirect attack at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Saturday said that the seat distribution within the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) for the recently concluded assembly elections should have been done five months prior to the poll, adding further that the Janata Dal (United) had to pay a price s...

Baseless, Lacks Any Substance: Nitish Kumar On Rumours Of Split In JDU

India News | Press Trust of India | Thursday December 31, 2020

The opposition RJD's claim of an impending split in the ruling Janata Dal (United) in Bihar on Wednesday met with an outright rebuttal by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, its de facto leader.

Nitish Kumar's Party Slams BJP Over Arunachal Pradesh, "Love Jihad"

India News | Edited by Anindita Sanyal | Sunday December 27, 2020

The appointment of a new chief in Janata Dal United -- mainly to give Chief Minister Nitish Kumar a chance to opt out of dealing with the BJP brass -- indicates a deep divide within Bihar's ruling alliance.

After BJP's Arunachal Jolt To Nitish Kumar, Congress' Keep-In-Touch Swipe

India News | Press Trust of India | Sunday December 27, 2020

Leader of the Congress party in the Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Saturday warned Bihar Chief Minister and Janata Dal (United) president Nitish Kumar of the BJP's "poaching skill" and asked him to keep in touch with opposition parties in the state as an "antidote to withstand the Arunachal Syndrome".