Former RJD leader Raghuvansh Prasad Singh died Sunday morning at AIIMS in Delhi (Archive)
Patna:
On Monday, the Rashtriya Janata Dal cast doubt on letters written by its founding member, Raghuvansh Prasad Singh, from his hospital bed, just a couple of days before he breathed his last, prompting angry reactions from the ruling NDA in Bihar. .
Raghuvansh Singh, who died at AIIMS, New Delhi on Sunday, announced his resignation from the party on Thursday in a handwritten video addressed to the jailed RJD supreme Lalu Prasad, and followed it up with a series of communications, the next day, drawing Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s attention to a number of issues.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, while paying a rich tribute to the late leader on Sunday, also referred to Raghuvansh Singh’s letter to Bihar’s chief minister, where he raised the issue of the development of his former seat at Lok Sabha, Vaishali.
“I will ask Nitish Kumar to carry out the development projects he wrote about in the letter. Together, the state and the Center, let us fulfill his wishes,” Prime Minister Modi said.
Kumar, who is Prasad’s archrival and runs Janata Dal (United), told reporters at the assembly hall on Sunday night, where Raghuvansh Singh’s body was taken on the way to his hometown for cremation. , “We have started to act on the requests of the late Raghuvansh babu.
“Some questions raised by him fall within the scope of the Center and we have referred them to the Union government for it to adopt the appropriate measures.”
Among other things, Raghuvansh Singh had sought to extend the benefits of MGNREGA to the agricultural sector.
He had also expressed the wish that a huge begging bowl believed to have been used by the Buddha, now kept in a museum in restless Kabul, be brought from the capital of Afghanistan and kept in the Vaishali district, where the late leader belonged and that is one of the many places identified as part of the “Buddha Circuit”.
A screenshot of Nitish Kumars’ written response to Raghuvansh Singh, written while the latter was still alive, was also shared on the Prime Minister’s Office’s official Twitter account.
The letter that Raghuvansh Singh sent him had surprised Mr. Prasad, who responded the same day saying: “I do not believe … a letter supposedly written by you is on social media. Me, my family and the RJD family who have La Party infirmary wants you to recover soon and be among us. You are not going anywhere. “
After learning of the death of his longtime partner, the RJD chief tweeted on Sunday: “The day before yesterday I told you that you were not going anywhere. But you have gone so far. I am speechless, I am sad You will always be in my memory “.
RJD MLA Bhai Virendra and MLC Subodh Rai smelled a rat and stated that “no person, admitted to the Intensive Care Unit of a hospital, can write a letter.”
Raghuvansh Singh had been admitted to the AIIMS ICU about a week ago for treatment of complications he had developed after recovering from COVID-19. They put him on a respirator Friday night and he died less than 48 hours later.
Rai, who claimed to have met Raghuvansh Singh in Patna after his recovery from the coronavirus, said he was “obviously upset by many things that he had freely expressed. But he never betrayed any intention to resign from the party he had nurtured. The state government.” he is doing politics in the matter ”.
In particular, Raghuvansh Singh, while in treatment for COVID-19, announced his resignation from the post of national vice president, upset by reports of a converted mob politician Rama Singh, by whom he was defeated in Vaishali in the 2014 Lok. Sabha surveys, joining the RJD.
Bhai Virendra noted that the letters written to Nitish Kumar were “too many in number and shared on social media at too short intervals” and claimed that the entire episode pointed to “an NDA conspiracy.”
RJD leaders found the support of the leader of Congress, Akhilesh Prasad Singh, who had previously been with the Lalu Prasads party.
“I met Raghuvansh babu just a week ago. He was a transparent man and if he had really been thinking about quitting his party, he would not have tried to hide it. There is some conspiracy on some level,” said the congressional leader.
There is much speculation that the former Union minister, who remained loyal to Lalu Prasad for more than three decades, changed his mind over his eldest son, Satya Prakash Singh, who is said to have quit his corporate job with the intention of doing the political plunge.
The JD (U) is said to have been proposing a legislative council seat for the son of veteran RJD leaders since before his death.
However, the NDA expressed outrage at the insinuations of the RJD leaders.
“They seem to have no shame. They never cared for his well-being while he struggled for life. Singh was proud of his roots in Vaishali, the seat of the world’s first republic, and raised a problem related to it. “
“The RJD is talking nonsense. Even Lalu did not show the recklessness to question Raghuvansh Singh’s actions,” enraged Neeraj Kumar, senior leader of JD (U) and Minister of State for the Department of Information and Public Relations.
BJP state spokesman Nikhil Anand said that “Singh had been tormented by the pettiness of the new generation of RJD leaders. Who can forget Tej Pratap Yadav’s disparaging remarks? Cursed by its founding member, the party is now on the brink of extinction “.
Mr. Yadav, the fickle eldest son of the Supreme RJD, had reacted to the exodus of Raghuvansh Singh by saying “a lota (pot) of water makes no difference in an ocean.”
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