Former Union Minister Raghuvansh Prasad Singh passes away | Delhi News


PATNA: former Union minister and veteran socialist leader Raghuvansh Prasad Singh (74), who played a pioneering role in the implementation of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Plan (NREGS) during the UPA government, breathed his last at AIIMS-Delhi on Sunday.

The end came around 11:40 am this morning, Singh’s son Satya Prakash Singh, who had been treating his father in hospital, told TOI by phone.

Singh was admitted to AIIMS-Delhi for the past two weeks after developing some post-Covid-19 complications. Previously, he was treated for Covid-19 at AIIMS-Patna.

Singh’s last rites would be performed in his hometown in the Vaishali district of Bihar, his son said.

Singh’s handwritten resignation letter from the RJD had gone viral on social media
Singh, who was the national vice president of the RJD led by Lalu Prasad, made headlines recently after he wrote a letter to his party chief from hospital, expressing his desire to terminate his relations with party supreme Lalu Yadav.

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