Claiming NDA will win 2019 Lok Sabha polls in Bihar, RLSP Vice President Bhagwan Singh Kushwaha left the party and joined the ruling JD(U), along with over 1,200 supporters. He said, "When I joined RLSP, my condition was that it should remain with NDA. What (RLSP chief Upendra) Kushwaha has done was not liked by RLSP's rank and file."