Even before the mortal remains of former union minister Raghuvansh Prasad Singh could be turned over to the flames, a nasty verbal dispute broke out between the leaders of the Grand Alliance and the NDA over the letter Singh wrote from his hospital bed in New Delhi. days before his death.
The RJD and Congress cast doubt on the letters he wrote, claiming that he “was forced to write those letters.”
Singh, who died at AIIMS in New Delhi on Sunday, announced his resignation from the party on Thursday in a handwritten letter addressed to incarcerated RJD Supreme Lalu Prasad, and followed it up with a series of communications the next day, drawing attention . of Prime Minister Nitish Kumar towards a series of issues.
Even Prime Minister Narendra Modi, when inaugurating oil and natural gas projects in Bihar, had asked CM to execute the development projects he wrote about in the letter. “Together, the state and the Center, let us fulfill their wishes,” Modi said.
Among other things, Singh had sought to extend the benefits of MGNREGA to the agricultural sector. RJD and Congressional leaders called the whole thing “suspicious.”
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“No person admitted to the ICU of a hospital can write a letter. He was upset by many things that he had freely expressed. But he never betrayed any intention to leave the party he had fostered. The state government is making policy on this, ”said Bhai Birendra, RJD MLA of Maner. “It appears to be an NDA conspiracy,” he added.
Congressional MP Rajya Sabha Akhilesh Prasad SIngh endorsed RJD MLA. “I met Raghuvansh babu just a week ago. He was a transparent man and if he had really been thinking about leaving his party, he would not have tried to hide it. There is some conspiracy on some level, ”said the leader of Congress. “He criticized Nitish Kumar during our meeting,” he said.
The NDA leaders, on the other hand, expressed shock at the accusations of the GA leaders. “They are cheeky. No RJD leader cared for him when he was ill. Now when he raised certain issues related to Vaishali, they are talking nonsense, ”said JD (U) minister and spokesman Neeraj Kumar.
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Singh had been tormented by the pettiness of the new generation of RJD leaders. Who can forget Tej Pratap Yadav’s comments that degrade his stature? The party will face its curse, ”said BJP spokesperson Nikhil Anand.
Lalu Prasad’s eldest son, Tejpratap Yadav Yadav, had reacted to Singh’s departure by saying “a lota (pot) of water makes no difference in an ocean.”
Former BJP state president and Rajya Sabha MP, Gopal Narain SIngh, also joined the issue, calling it a “novice” politics of the young RJD leaders.
Meanwhile, on Monday afternoon, the body of the former Union minister was turned over to the flames with all state honors.
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