The Rashtriya Lok Samta Party (RLSP) of former MP Upendra Kushwaha on Tuesday, 28 September, announced that it was joining hands with the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and Janvadi Party (Socialist) to contest the upcoming Bihar Assembly elections in October.
Kushwaha, a former Union Minister of State, announced the coalition in the presence of the BSP and JP-S state unit chiefs in Patna, and said that it would contest all the 243 seats in the Assembly, IANS reported.