Raghuvansh Prasad Singh (File photo)
PATNA: After resigning from the RJD, former Union minister Raghuvansh Prasad Singh has written a letter to the Chief Minister of Bihar Nitish kumar With a number of suggestions, including an amendment in MGNREGA and some issues regarding his home district of Vaishali, send an olive branch to JD (U) who has welcomed his decision to leave Lalu Prasad’s party.
Singh addressed his letter to Kumar from his hospital bed at AIIMS, New Delhi, on Thursday, the day he said goodbye to the RJD.
He posted the letter to the prime minister on his Facebook account.
Ruling Janata Dal (United) has made it clear that he will welcome Singh to the party if he decides to join him.
The former trade union minister is admitted to the Delhi AIIMS due to post-Covid complications.
In his letter to Kumar, who heads the JD (U), the veteran leader has made a number of suggestions including an amendment to the Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee National Act (MGNREGA), bringing Lord’s begging bowl Buddha from Kabul and raising the tricolor in Vaishali, the land of the world’s first Republic.
Singh has represented the Vaishali Lok Sabha seat five times before his successive losses in the 2014 and 2019 polls.
The departure of the veteran socialist leader, a familiar face of the RJD along with Prasad, will be a tremendous psychological debacle for the main opposition party before the state elections. It would also affect the party’s support among the upper Rajput caste.
Singh, who as the Union’s rural development minister in UPA-1 had put the NREGA scheme to the test, urged the CM to introduce an amendment through an ordinance in the Act to bring more benefits to farmers.
He said the ordinance could be carried out as soon as possible to bypass the model code of conduct that will take effect once the timetable for the Bihar assembly elections is announced.
Singh also said in the letter that Lord Buddha’s begging bowl should also be brought from Kabul (Afghanistan), in addition to the CM should hoist tricolor in Vaishali on January 26.
The former union minister also urged the CM to build small bridges over the Gandak canal in Muzaffarpur and Vaishali districts, the letter said.
In Singh’s letter to Kumar, JD (U) spokesman Rajiv Ranjan Prasad said that “the letter he has written to CM Nitish Kumar on various matters are certainly issues that require consideration.”
“One thing is clear: Raghuvansh Babu was humiliated and insulted because he swallowed hard during his long stint at the RJD, which he cared for with his blood and sweat,” said Prasad, adding that “Singh’s decision has made a big hole in the sinking. from the RJD ship. ”
In particular, Singh had resigned from the party on Thursday after serving it since its inception in July 1997, thus dealing a severe blow to the party which has already witnessed the defection of seven MLA and five MLC at a time when elections to the assembly could be announced next time. Few days.
Hours later, the RJD supreme wrote an emotional letter to Singh from the Ranchi jail facility rejecting his resignation and insisting that he would not go anywhere.
“I don’t think … a letter supposedly written by you is on social media. I, my family and the RJD family who attended the party want you to get well soon and be among us,” Prasad replied.
Singh had recently resigned as Vice Chairman of RJD in protest against efforts to recruit Mafia Don and former MP from Vaishali Rama Singh’s Lok Janshakti party.
Rama Singh had defeated the RJD leader in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, breaking his winning streak since he was first elected in 1996.
He was also unhappy with the working style of the apparent Prasad heir and leader of the opposition in the Bihar assembly. Tejashwi Yadavparty sources said.
.
