Patna (Bihar) [India], November 5 (ANI): Lalan Kumar, sitting Pirpainti MLA from Bihar, on Wednesday joined Lalu Prasad Yadav's Rashtriya Janata Dal ( RJD ) in the run-up to the assembly elections, scheduled to be held in two phases on November 6 and 11.

Lalan Kumar was the Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ) MLA from the Pirpainti assembly constituency , which is a reserved SC seat in the Bhagalpur district of Bihar.

With just a day left for the first phase of the Bihar assembly polls, Kumar's exit from the party comes as a major setback for the BJP . Kumar had secured a victory on the BJP ticket in the 2020 assembly elections.

He remained upset with the BJP because the party had not given him a ticket this time. The BJP has fielded Murari Paswan from the Pirpainti assembly c

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