{"id":92030,"date":"2020-09-10T18:30:27","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T13:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=92030"},"modified":"2020-09-10T18:59:28","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T13:29:28","slug":"lalus-deputy-raghuvansh-prasad-singh-quits-rjd-over-tejashwi-inductees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/latest-news\/lalus-deputy-raghuvansh-prasad-singh-quits-rjd-over-tejashwi-inductees\/","title":{"rendered":"Lalu’s deputy Raghuvansh Prasad Singh quits RJD over Tejashwi inductees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

With the elections to the Bihar Assembly due in a month or so, the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) lost its  national \u00adpresident and former Union Minister Raghuvansh Prasad Singh, who resigned from the party on Thursday. In June this year, Singh had said he was not happy with the induction of some people into the party when the inflow of people who flocked to the RJD went up after party president Lalu Prasad Yadav\u2019s son Tejashwi Yadav took charge of affairs following the imprisonment of Lalu on corruption charges in the fodder scam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The move comes as a blow to the RJD’s chances of presenting a credible opposition party that can shoulder an alliance against the National Democratic Alliance of the ruling Janata Dal (United) and the BJP. In a letter addressed to Lalu, Singh said he had backed the RJD chief for 32 years after the death of Karpoori Thakur, but will not do so anymore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Raghuvansh Prasad Singh is presently undergoing post Covid-19 treatment at All India Institute of Medical Sciences in Delhi, from where he wrote this resignation on a notepad. Earlier in June, Singh had quit the party’s vice president post. He had been been ridiculed by Lalu’s elder son Tej Pratap Yadav who said the RJD was an ocean and Singh was just a mug of water from it and his absence will not be felt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Singh held the cabinet portfolio of rural development in the Manmohan Singh UPA-1 government.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reports said Raghuvansh Prasad Singh was reportedly unhappy over the proposed induction of muscleman Rama Singh into the RJD. Earlier, Tej Pratap’s father-in-law Chandrika Rai joined the NItish Kumar-led ruling JD (U) after his daughter was involved in a marital dispute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite the Covid-19 pandemic, Bihar is set to elect its 243-member assembly. Though the Election Commission of India has issued directives to conduct election, dates for the election are yet to be announced. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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