Why RLSP's Kushwaha's lot is unlikely to get better deal with RJD than BJP

Rashtriya Lok Samata Party (RLSP) chief Upendra Kushwaha finds himself in a difficult situation. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is unwilling to give his party more than two Lok Sabha seats to contest in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls. He has conveyed that he isn't altogether happy with the formula, but it isn’t that he is likely to get a better deal from Lalu Prasad-led Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD).

In 2014 Lok Sabha, the RJD contested 27 of Bihar’s 40-Lok Sabha seats, winning four. It had an alliance with the Congress and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP). The Congress contested 12