Patna, Oct 10 (PTI) Former JD(U) lawmakers Santosh Kushwaha and Rahul Sharma joined the opposition RJD on Friday ahead of the assembly elections in Bihar.

Kushwaha and Sharma joined the RJD in the presence of its leader Tejashwi Yadav.

Kushwaha had won the Purnea Lok Sabha seat for the JD(U) twice on the trot, but lost to Independent candidate Pappu Yadav last year.

His Lok Sabha debut in 2014 had taken many by surprise as he quit the BJP, giving up the Baisi assembly seat and rode against the "Modi wave", bagging for the JD(U) one of the only two seats for the party of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, who was shattered by the drubbing and stepped down, owning moral responsibility, only to return less than a year later.

Sharma is a former MLA from Ghosi in Jehanabad district and the son of

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