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The Hindu
The Hindu
National
Amarnath Tewary

Bihar RJD president Jagdanand Singh’s next move triggers speculation

The Bihar Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) president and senior party leader Jagdanand Singh is said to be upset with party leadership ever since his younger son Sudhakar Singh resigned from Chief Minister Nitish Kumar-led cabinet as Agriculture Minister after flagging “rampant corruption” in his department.

Mr Singh’s corruption remarks said to have embarrassed Mr Kumar and mahagathbandhan (grand alliance) government with RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav as his deputy in the Cabinet which has often been claiming to run with “good governance”.

Allegedly, under pressure Sudhakar Singh, 46, had to resign on October 2.  “I don’t want this (friction) to drag on further”, said Jagdanand Singh who announced that his son had put in his papers.

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