Former MLA Rishi Mishra joins Congress

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Patna : Former JD(U) MLA from Jale in Darbhanga district in North Bihar Rishi Mishra on February 2, 2019, quit his party and joined the Congress party in the presence of state Congress President Madan Mohan Jha at Sadaqat Ashram, the BPCC headquarters.

Rishi Mishra, son of JD(U)MLC Vijay Kumar Mishra and grandson of former Railway Minister Lalit Narain Mishra, said that it had become difficult for him to remain in an alliance which included the BJP. Rishi Mishra said he has no problems with CM Nitish Kumar but it had become extremely difficult for him to face the people of his constituency as he had fought the 2015 assembly polls against the BJP and the JD(U) is now in alliance with it.

Rishi had contested unsuccessfully from Jale constituency  district in 2015 Bihar Assembly polls and had lost to Jibesh Kumar of the BJP.