Bihar leader Pappu Yadav merges Jan Adhikar Party with Congress

March 20, 2024 03:46 pm | Updated 04:25 pm IST

Ahead of the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, Bihar leader Pappu Yadav on March 20 formally merged his Jan Adhikar Party with the Indian National Congress and formally joined the party at the AICC headquarters in New Delhi.

His wife, Ranjeet Ranjan, is a Rajya Sabha member of the Congress.

Earlier, Mr. Yadav had called on Rashtriya Janata Dal president Lalu Prasad, fuelling speculations of a realignment with the party which had fielded him from Madhepura in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls.

The RJD headlines the Mahaghatbandhan in Bihar, which also comprises the Congress and three Left parties CPI(ML) Liberation, CPI and CPI(M) as its alliance partners.

Mr. Yadav launched the Jan Adhikar Party (Loktantrik) in 2015 after he was expelled from RJD for alleged anti-party activities.

(With PTI inputs)