A week after he walked out of the SP-BSP alliance in Uttar Pradesh, Nishad Party leader and Gorakhpur MP Praveen Nishad allied with the BJP on Thursday, 4 April, ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
Barely three days after joining the alliance, the Nishad Party on 29 March, sprang a surprise by parting ways with the fledgling anti-BJP alliance and meeting Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.
The Nishad Party was formed in 2016 to empower Nishads, Kewats, Binds and other communities, whose livelihoods are dependent on rivers.
The Nishad Party is headed by Sanjay Nishad, the father of Pravin Nishad who had won the Gorakhpur parliamentary seat on an SP ticket in the 2018 by-polls.
The win had been remarkable, as Gorakhpur was considered a bastion of UP CM Yogi Adityanath, who had represented the parliamentary constituency several times before.
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