“Conspiracy By NDA”: Raghuvansh Prasad Singh’s Letter Sparks Row In Bihar

Patna:

The Rashtriya Janata Dal on Monday solid doubts over letters written by its founding member Raghuvansh Prasad Singh, from his hospital mattress, barely a few days earlier than respiratory his final, drawing indignant reactions from the ruling NDA in Bihar.

Raghuvansh Singh, who died at AIIMS, New Delhi on Sunday, had on Thursday introduced his resignation from the social gathering vide a hand-written addressed to jailed RJD supremo Lalu Prasad and adopted it up with a collection of communications, the subsequent day, drawing the eye of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar in direction of a lot of points.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi whereas paying wealthy tributes to the departed chief Sunday had additionally referred to Raghuvansh Singh’s letter to the Bihar Chief Minister the place he raised the difficulty of growth of his erstwhile Lok Sabha seat Vaishali.

“I’ll request Nitish Kumar to execute the event tasks he wrote about within the letter. Let’s together–the state and the Centre–fulfil his needs,” PM Modi mentioned.

Mr Kumar, who’s Mr Prasads arch rival and heads the Janata Dal (United), had on Sunday evening advised reporters on the meeting premises, the place Raghuvansh Singh’s physique have been introduced on option to his native village for cremation, “now we have began appearing on the requests of late Raghuvansh babu.

“Some points raised by him fall within the ambit of the Centre and now we have referred these to the Union authorities for applicable motion”.

Amongst different issues, Raghuvansh Singh had sought extension of MGNREGA advantages to the farm sector.

He had additionally expressed the want that a large begging bowl believed to have been utilized by the Buddha, which is at current saved at a museum in restive Kabul, be introduced again from the Afghanistan capital and saved at Vaishali district, to which the late chief belonged and which is among the many spots recognized as a part of the “Buddha Circuit”.

A screenshot of Nitish Kumars written reply to Raghuvansh Singh, penned whereas the latter was nonetheless alive, was additionally shared on the official twitter deal with of the chief ministers Workplace.

Raghuvansh Singh’s letter to him had shocked Mr Prasad, who wrote again the identical day saying, “I do not consider….a letter purportedly written by you is on social media. I, my household, and the RJD household which have nursed the social gathering need you to get nicely quickly and be amongst us. You aren’t going wherever”.

After listening to about dying of his long-time companion, the RJD chief had tweeted Sunday, “I had advised you solely the day earlier than yesterday that you’re not going wherever. However you’ve gone so distant. I’m speechless, I’m unhappy. You’ll all the time be in my reminiscence.”

RJD MLA Bhai Virendra and MLC Subodh Rai smelt a rat and asserted “no particular person, admitted to a hospitals Intensive Care Unit, can write a letter”.

Raghuvansh Singh had been admitted to the ICU of AIIMS a couple of week in the past for remedy of issues he had developed after recovering from COVID-19. He was placed on ventilator late Friday and died lower than 48 hours later.

Mr Rai, who claimed to have met Raghuvansh Singh in Patna after his restoration from coronavirus, mentioned “he was clearly upset over many issues which he had expressed freely. However he by no means betrayed any intention of quitting the social gathering he had nurtured. The state authorities is doing politics within the matter”.

Notably, Raghuvansh Singh had, whereas present process remedy for COVID-19, introduced his resignation from the put up of nationwide vice-president, miffed over reviews of a mafia don-turned politician Rama Singh, by whom he was defeated in Vaishali within the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, becoming a member of the RJD.

Bhai Virendra identified that the letters written to Nitish Kumar have been “too many in quantity and shared on the social media at too brief intervals” and claimed the entire episode pointed in direction of “a conspiracy by the NDA”.

The RJD leaders discovered help from senior Congress chief Akhilesh Prasad Singh, who had previously been with Lalu Prasads social gathering.

“I had met Raghuvansh babu only one week again. He was a clear man and had he actually been considering of quitting his social gathering, he wouldn’t have tried to cover it. There’s some conspiracy at some degree”, the Congress chief mentioned.

Speculations are rife that the previous Union minister, who remained loyal to Lalu Prasad for greater than three many years, was made to alter his thoughts by his elder son Satya Prakash Singh who is claimed to have given up his company job with the intent to make the political plunge.

The JD(U) is claimed to have been mooting a legislative council berth for the veteran RJD leaders son since earlier than his dying.

Nonetheless, the NDA expressed outrage over the insinuations by the RJD leaders.

“They appear to have no disgrace. They by no means cared about his well-being whereas he was battling for all times. Singh was pleased with his roots in Vaishali, the seat of the primary republic on this planet and he raised a difficulty regarding it.”

“The RJD is speaking garbage. Even Lalu didn’t present the temerity to query Raghuvansh Singhs acts”, Neeraj Kumar, senior JD(U) chief and state minister for Data and Public Relations Division, fumed.

State BJP spokesman Nikhil Anand mentioned “Singh had been suffering from the pettiness of the RJDs new era of leaders. Who can neglect Tej Pratap Yadavs denigrating remarks. Accursed by its founding member, the social gathering is now on the verge of extinction”.

Mr Yadav, the mercurial elder son of the RJD supremo, had reacted to Raghuvansh Singh’s exodus by saying “a lota (pot) of water makes no distinction to an ocean”.