Congress MLA Surendra Prasad Kushwaha, who abstained from voting in the Rajya Sabha elections, has given clarification through Facebook. He did not reach Bihar Assembly during voting last Monday (March 16, 2026). Now he has told the reason behind this. Surendra Kushwaha has clearly said that on behalf of the Grand Alliance, RJD made a candidate from a class whose votes the Grand Alliance does not get, hence he did not consider it appropriate to vote for it.
On behalf of the Grand Alliance, RJD had made AD Singh the Rajya Sabha candidate. He belongs to Bhumihar caste. When voting took place on Monday, three Congress MLAs and one RJD MLA were missing. There was talk of everyone having contacts in NDA. Meanwhile, Surendra Kushwaha has made it clear that he was not in touch with NDA.
Read Surendra Kushwaha’s Facebook post
In a clarification through a Facebook post on Tuesday (March 17, 2026), Surendra Kushwaha said, “The Grand Alliance had a chance for one seat. Who could have been a better candidate than Deepak Yadav ji, if not Mukesh Sahni ji, but by not giving him a chance, a person from a class whose support base is against the Grand Alliance was made the candidate.”
He further wrote, “I cannot support NDA and RJD chose the wrong candidate so I thought it better not to vote. As for blaming me, we had won the Assembly elections by defeating the entire government machinery on the most favorite seat of the Chief Minister and I am repaying the debt of public blessings by carrying out development works at the fastest pace in the whole of Bihar, then when the opponent is not able to match, he will defame me. I hope the public will appreciate my sacrifice and dedication for the Dalit, backward and minority class. Will understand the sentiment and will not fall into the trap of opponents.”
Let us tell you that Deepak Yadav had contested the 2024 Lok Sabha elections from Valmiki Nagar from RJD and the 2025 Assembly elections also from RJD from Valmiki Nagar. Lost both elections. He is the son-in-law of UP’s strongman DP Yadav.
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