The JD(U), which has referred to as an emergency nationwide govt meet in New Delhi on Saturday, may see a change of guard within the occasion organisation. The occasion usually insists on a “one man, one post” system, and should ask its present nationwide president R C P Singh to resign from his publish as he has just lately taken oath as a Union minister.
Party sources informed The Indian Express that the names of Munger MP Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan Singh, JD(U)’s parliamentary board chairman Upendra Kushwaha and of spokesperson Okay C Tyagi are in rivalry for the publish of nationwide president.
“With the party looking to invest in the leadership of Upendra Kushwaha, he looks a natural choice. But (Bihar Chief Minister) Nitish Kumar may put that move on hold for now… This is where Lalan Singh stands a fair chance,” a supply mentioned.
Tyagi, a former Rajya Sabha MP who has been defending the occasion on key points as its spokesperson, stands an outdoor probability of changing into the occasion chief. “What goes in favour of Tyagi is his ability to connect with regional parties outside Bihar, especially in the expansion bid of the JD(U). But what goes against him is his outsider tag,” mentioned one other supply in Patna.
The JD(U) nationwide govt meet can be more likely to take up its plans to contest the upcoming Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections in addition to the reiteration of a caste census demand.