patna former union minister upendra kushwaha on monday quit janata dal united for a record third time in the last 16 years and launched yet another political party rashtriya lok janata dal rljd he also announced to resign from the membership of the state legislative council zameer bechkar amir nahin banenge i would not trade my conscience for certain benefits kushwaha said referring to some jdu leaders statements that the party had given him respect and made an mlc addressing a press conference kushwaha said his supporters have made him the national president of the rljdthe new party will take forward the political legacy of veteran socialist leader and former cm karpoori thakur kushwaha said while floating his third political organisation in the last 14 yearstwo years after his first breakup with the jdu kushwaha launched his first political party rahstriya samata party in february 2009nitish shouldnt have chosen tejas but he merged the party with jdu of cm nitish kumar in november 2009 a few months before the 2010 assembly polls in bihar kushwaha floated another party rashhtriya lok samata party in march 2013 but again merged it into nitishs jdu in march 2021 jdu national president rajiv ranjan alias lalan singh however termed kushwaha as an overambitious partyhopper whose third time return was opposed by all the party leaders all senior leaders in jdu were opposed to kushwahas return to the party for a third time in march 2021 but cm nitish insisted and he was allowed to join lalan said and added when his rejoining jdu was being discussed i told the cm to ask kushwaha how long he would stay in the partykushwaha who was the union minister of state for human resources development in the narendra modi government from 2014 to 2018 returned to jdu in march 2021 after merging his 8yearold rlsp with a hope of becoming the political heir to nitish after the latter retires from active politics but his dream was shattered in december last year after nitish announced at a joint meeting of the legislators of all sevenparties of grand alliance ga on december 13 last year that his deputy and rjd leader tejashwi prasad yadav would lead the ga in the 2025 assembly polls in bihar since then kushwaha began sulking with the jdu leadership especially nitishkushwaha said nitish should have chosen his political successor from within the jdu instead of looking out for someone of neighbour rjd of lalu prasad i would have been comfortable with nitish for not projecting me as the future leader of the alliance had he chosen anybody from within the jdu belonging to the luv kush samaj kurmis and kushwaha caste or the extremely backward classes who form the main support base of the party kushwaha said