Former union minister Raghuvansh Prasad Singh dies at AIIMS, Delhi


Former Union Minister Raghuvansh Prasad Singh and former RJD leader Raghuvansh Prasad Singh died today at AIIMS in Delhi, where he had been placed on a ventilator and was being treated for post-Covid complications. He was 74 years old.

Singh, who has been admitted to AIIMS, Delhi for about a week after developing post-COVID complications, resigned from the party’s main membership on Thursday and followed up with an open letter, a day later, addressed to Bihar’s chief minister Nitish. . Kumar, sparking speculation about his future moves. That same day, the supreme of RJD sent a letter to Singh de Ranchi, making an emotional appeal to his partner for more than three decades not to leave the party.

A loyal staunch supporter of RJD supremacy whom he supported through thick and thin, Singh took on the party a few months ago when rumors about the mob that Don became a politician Rama Singh, his rival in the constituency of Vaishali Lok Sabha, led him to resign from office. of the national vice president.

Known as the architect of India’s largest welfare program, the Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee National Act (MGNREGA), Singh represented the Vaishali constituency of Bihar in Lok Sabha.

-With agency supplies

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