Bihar Elections: ‘You Are Not Going Anywhere,’ Lalu Yadav Responds To Raghuvansh Prasad Singh’s Resignation

Bihar Elections 2020: “You are not going anywhere, we will talk once you are well,” jailed RJD leader Lalu Yadav who is serving sentences in four fodder scam cases in Ranchi, replied in a letter to Raghuvansh Prasad Singh.

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Bihar Elections 2020: Soon after Rashtriya Janata Dal top-gun Raghuvansh Prasad Singh called it quits on Thursday, dealing a setback to the main opposition party of Bihar ahead of the assembly elections, RJD supremo Lalu Yadav wrote a letter to Singh asking him to stay back. “You are not going anywhere, we will talk once you are well,” jailed RJD leader Lalu Yadav who is serving sentences in four fodder scam cases in Ranchi, replied in a letter to Raghuvansh Prasad Singh. Singh, RJD’s national vice president and former Union Minister, had resigned from the party, earlier today and is currently admitted at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi because of post- COVID complications.  In a letter to Lalu Prasad, the veteran leader had written he was quitting the party. "Since the death of Jannayak Karpoori Thakur, I stood behind you for 32 years, but not now," he said in his brief one-line resignation letter, written from his hospital bed on a ruled notebook page.   In the footnote, he added," I got the affection of party leaders and workers, besides common people. Please forgive me." Thakur was a prominent socialist leader and former state chief minister. On June 23, Singh had announced resignation as party’s vice president but even then he was persuaded by Yadav to stay back. It is said that Singh has expressed his displeasure at induction of alleged mafia don and former Lok Janshakti Party MP from Vaishali Rama Singh into the party.  He was also dissatisfied with the style of functioning of Lalu’s son Tejashwi Yadav.