Day After Leaving Lalu Yadav’s Party, Top Leader Raghuvansh Prasad Singh Writes To Nitish Kumar
Raghuvansh Prasad Singh, a most sensible chief of the RJD, resigned from Lalu Yadav’s celebration on Thursday
Patna:
An afternoon after leaving Lalu Yadav’s celebration RJD, former union minister Raghuvansh Prasad Singh wrote to Bihar Leader Minister Nitish Kumar in search of extension of MGNREGA advantages to the farm sector, a step being noticed as an try by means of the veteran socialist chief to get nearer to the ruling JD(U).
In a letter to Nitish Kumar, Raghuvansh Prasad Singh, one in all his maximum vitriolic critics whilst within the RJD, stated the MGNREGA legislation had to be amended and its advantages prolonged to the farm sector.
Since its release in 2006, the agricultural employment ensure scheme has aimed to supply livelihood safety in rural spaces by means of making certain no less than 100 days of minimal salary employment, most commonly within the development of sturdy belongings akin to roads, canals and ponds.
A number of Leader Ministers have steadily sought extension of some great benefits of the scheme to the farm sector.
In his letter posted on Fb, the previous union minister additionally requested Nitish Kumar to facilitate the go back of the begging bowl of Lord Buddha from Kabul. He additionally demanded that the manager minister unfurl the nationwide flag at Vaishali each and every Republic Day.
Vaishali is the parliamentary constituency Mr Singh represented for 5 successive phrases prior to his defeat in 2014.
Mr Singh had resigned from the RJD, the principle opposition celebration in Bihar, on Thursday, triggering hypothesis about his becoming a member of the ruling JD(U). Then again, RJD supremo Lalu Yadav, serving time in prison in 4 fodder rip-off circumstances in Ranchi, had rejected his resignation.
“For 4 a long time, we’ve got in combination mentioned political, social or even circle of relatives issues. You recuperate quickly and we will be able to speak about once more. You aren’t going any place, ,” Lalu Yadav had written to Raghuvansh Prasad Singh on Thursday, after the latter made it transparent that he was once quitting the celebration.
Mr Singh, who’s admitted to the AIIMS, New Delhi, on account of put up COVID-19 headaches, has nonetheless no longer made it transparent whether or not he’ll keep within the RJD or shift to the JD(U), reported information company Press Accept as true with of India.
The departure of Raghuvansh Prasad Singh from the RJD is being noticed as a big “mental setback” for the celebration as a sizeable segment of Rajputs nonetheless again the opposition celebration whilst all different higher castes vote for the BJP or the Congress.
Mr Singh, who because the Union Rural Building Minister piloted the NREGA Invoice, recommended Nitish Kumar to carry an ordinance to amend the related legislation to increase its advantages to the farm sector.
He insisted that the ordinance be introduced prior to the style code of habits for election kicks in.
Meeting elections are most likely in Bihar in October-November, and as soon as the style code comes into pressure, no coverage determination may also be made.
The JD(U), which has already made it transparent that its doorways are open for the veteran socialist chief, indicated it was once amenable to accepting his tips.
“The problems he has raised in his letter to the Leader Minister are without a doubt price attention,” JD(U) spokesman Rajiv Ranjan Prasad stated.
“Something is obvious that Raghuvansh Babu was once humiliated and insulted within the RJD and he swallowed it right through his lengthy stint within the celebration he nursed together with his blood and sweat”, Rajiv Ranjan Prasad stated.
He stated Mr Singh’s determination to hand over the RJD had left a “giant hollow within the celebration’s sinking boat”.
Ahead of Mr Singh, seven MLAs and 5 MLCs, together with the ones belonging to the Yadav caste and Muslims, the bedrock of the RJD’s improve base, had resigned and joined the JD(U).
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