A day after Chief Minister Nitish Kumar was re-elected as the national president of the Janata Dal-United (JD-U), former party president Lalan Singh on December 30 vowed to sue media outfits that had carried reports of an alleged rebellion he had plotted against Mr. Kumar and in favour of Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader and Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav.
Mr. Singh had offered to resign on Friday, after which Mr. Kumar’s name was proposed for the top party post. At the party’s national executive committee meeting in New Delhi’s Constitution Club, Mr. Kumar was re-elected to the post for the second time.
In a series of posts on social media platform X, Mr. Singh said that he would soon send a legal notice to all such media outfits. He said that many misleading facts had been continuously published by a section of media for the past week. He stressed that attempts had been made to question his 37-year-old relationship with Mr. Kumar.
