JD(U) office bearers to meet today

New Delhi:  After the drubbing in the Lok Sabha polls in Bihar, Janata Dal (United) officer bearers will meet in the national capital on Wednesday to discuss their future political strategy.
The meeting to be chaired by party President Sharad Yadav will be attended by office-bearers from various states including Bihar, the only province in which the party has a government. From Bihar, Rajya Sabha MP R C P Singh, ministers in the state government Shyam Razak and Bheem Singh and Maulana Ghulam Rasool Balyavi are among the office-bearers, JD (U) general secretary Javed Raza said.
He said the meeting will review the performance of the party in Lok Sabha elections and deliberate future plans of the party for upcoming Assembly elections in Maharashtra and Haryana this year and Bihar and Jharkhand next year.
Besides the odd 20 office bearers including general secretaries and Vice Presidents of the party, the heads of JDU’s Youth and Student wings will also attend the meeting.
Nitish Kumar, Modi’s arch-rival who had served as the Chief Minister of Bihar for the last nine years, stepped down on May 17 from his post following the drubbing of his party at the hands of the BJP-led NDA, which walked away with 31 of the 40 Lok Sabha seats in the state. (PTI)