LUCKNOW: Over three months after he quit Nitish Kumar led JD (U) to join the RLD, KC Tyagi was on Tuesday appointed as the chairman of the party’s parliamentary board, the apex internal decision-making body handling day-to-day administrative, legislative, and electoral strategies.RLD national president Jayant Chaudhary and 14 other party leaders have been appointed as the members of the board. They include major General Bishamber Dayal, former MPs Tarif Singh, Munshi Ram, and Malook Nagar; former UP Minister Ashok Yadav; RLD MP Rajkumar Sangwan, MLA Rajpal Baliyan, former Rajasthan MLA Abdur Sagir Khan, UP MLC Yogesh Chaudhary and RLD MLA from Bharatpur (Rajasthan) Subhash Garg.Amongst other leaders who have been included in the board include RLD national general secretary Yashpal Baghel, former national general secretary Anil Dubey, RLD former Mahila wing president Rama Nagar and RLD’s Baraut Nagar Palika Parishad chairperson Babita Tomar.The party has also included four party leaders as special invitees. They include farmer leader Yudhveer Singh, Rajasthan based RLD functionary Vijay Poonia, and west UP based regional party functionaries like Sukhbir Gathina and Chandrabali Yadav.The announcement signalled a major strategic overhaul even as the RLD, an ally of the BJP, gears up for the high stake UP assembly elections due early next year. Sources said that Tyagi’s appointment signalled Jayant intent of having experienced political managers around him rather than relying solely on traditional RLD faces.The former close aide of Nitish Kumar and founding member of JD (U) is said to be a master strategist with decades of experience in socialist politics. He represented Janta Dal from Hapur between 1989 and 1991.Tyagi, sources said, also possesses extensive relationships across the political spectrum—from NDA leaders to opposition parties—which could help RLD negotiate alliance issues and policy positions.At the same time, the party has executed a social engineering, purposefully balancing different caste and religious equations (Jat, Gurjar, Rajpur, Muslim and OBC) to shed its single community image to build a strong social coalition.