Upendra Kushwaha appoints disgruntled MLA Alok Singh as RLM’s Bihar chief

Upendra Kushwaha appoints Alok Singh as Bihar RLM chief amid internal dissent and accusations of dynastic politics.

Amid the buzz of split and growing rebellion in Upendra Kushwaha’s party, the Rajya Sabha MP and chief of Rashtriya Lok Morcha (RLM) appointed Bihar MLA Alok Singh as the State president of the party on Friday (January 30, 2026). Mr. Singh is the party’s MLA from Dinara Assembly seat

Party sources said that the organisational changes have been made as damage control to keep the MLAs united and to calm their anger.

Earlier, RLM MLAs had indirectly expressed disappointment over Mr. Kushwaha choosing his son Deepak Prakash, who is not a member of either house of the State Legislature, to be the Panchayati Raj Minister in Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s Cabinet.

Further, two party leaders Prashant Pankaj and Subhash Chandravanshi have been appointed State working presidents of the party, Mr. Kushwaha announced at a press conference in Patna.

Along with them, Himanshu Patel has been appointed State General Secretary and former State working president Madan Choudhary has been appointed National Vice President of the party.

When asked about the split in the party, Mr. Kushwaha, accompanied by these leaders, denied and asserted that there is no dissatisfaction or split in the party. He maintained that it was only the media which had set the narrative. “I had already said that there was nothing as such, only you people were talking about it,” Mr. Kushwaha said.