Nishad Party Allies With BJP After Breaking Off With SP-BSP in UP

A week after he walked out of the SP-BSP alliance in Uttar Pradesh, it partnered with the BJP.

A week after he walked out of the SP-BSP alliance in Uttar Pradesh, Nishad Party leader and Gorakhpur MP Praveen Nishad allied with the BJP on Thursday, 4 April, ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

Barely three days after joining the alliance, the Nishad Party on 29 March, sprang a surprise by parting ways with the fledgling anti-BJP alliance and meeting Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.

The Nishad Party was formed in 2016 to empower Nishads, Kewats, Binds and other communities, whose livelihoods are dependent on rivers.