Raghuvansh Prasad Singh has fallen critically in poor health and placed on a ventilator (File photograph)
Patna:
Former Union minister Raghuvansh Prasad Singh, whose current resignation from the RJD based and headed by Lalu Prasad has left political waters in Bihar astir, has fallen critically in poor health and placed on a ventilator, an in depth aide stated on Saturday.
Mr Singh, who has been admitted at AIIMS, Delhi for a few week after creating post-COVID issues, resigned from the first membership of the social gathering on Thursday and adopted it up with an open letter, a day later, addressed to Lalu Prasad’s arch rival and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, triggering speculations about his future strikes.
“Singh sahib‘s situation deteriorated significantly final night time. At 11.56 pm, he was placed on ventilator. We’re praying for his well-being”, the aide, who stays by the facet of the septuagenarian, instructed PTI-Bhasha over telephone.
A staunch loyalist of the RJD chief whom he supported by means of thick and skinny, Mr Singh ran afoul with the social gathering a number of months in the past when murmurs about mafia don turned politician Rama Singh, his rival in Vaishali Lok Sabha constituency, led him to resign from the put up of the nationwide vice-president.
A cupboard colleague of Lalu Prasad within the Manmohan Singh authorities, Mr Singh thereby stymied Rama Singh’s entry into the social gathering and though he didn’t hand over the first membership at the moment, he stayed away from the RJD’s daily affairs which was attributed, partly, to his ill-health.
On Thursday, his hand-written be aware addressed to Lalu Prasad declaring that he has had sufficient went viral on the social media.
On the identical day, the RJD chief despatched a letter to Mr Singh from Ranchi, making an emotional attraction to his companion for over three a long time to not depart the social gathering.
On Friday, Mr Singh wrote one other letter from hospital, this time addressed to Nitish Kumar, which was seen as his try and cosy as much as the chief minister, who heads the JD(U) and has been a fierce rival of the RJD chief for many years.
Typically referred to as the architect of the MNREGA scheme, which was floated when he was the Union minister for rural improvement, Mr Singh has been in political wilderness for a while, having misplaced two consecutive elections in 2014 and 2019 from Vaishali which he has represented within the Lok Sabha a report 5 occasions.
His relations with Tejashwi Yadav, youthful son and inheritor obvious of Lalu Prasad, turned bitter when he began pitching for Nitish Kumar again to the Grand Alliance helmed by the RJD, after the social gathering acquired its worst-ever drubbing within the Lok Sabha polls final 12 months.
The JD(U) is alleged to be eager to win over Mr Singh, a extremely revered chief, within the run as much as the meeting elections, and speculations have been rife that it’s mooting a legislative council berth for the previous Union minister’s son.
