Patna: In a significant political development ahead of the 2025 Bihar Assembly elections, former Muzaffarpur MP Ajay Nishad rejoined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday evening.

Nishad, accompanied by his wife Rama Nishad, formally returned to the BJP fold.

They were welcomed into the party by Bihar BJP State President Dilip Jaiswal, who administered the party membership at the state headquarters.

Ajay Nishad, who hails from a prominent political family, had earlier represented Muzaffarpur in the Lok Sabha in 2014 and 2019 on a BJP ticket.

However, after being denied a ticket in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, he switched to the Congress and contested from Muzaffarpur but lost to the BJP’s Rajbhushan Nishad by a margin of 2.34 lakh votes.

Following Rajbhushan Nishad’s victory an

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