Internal differences within Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) came to the fore at a meeting of its national executive held in Delhi on Sunday, with the party’s Bihar State unit president Jagadanand Singh giving it a miss and Lalu Prasad’s elder son Tej Pratap Yadav storming out in a huff alleging that the leadership has been sidelining him.
The national executive endorsed party founder Mr. Prasad’s re-election as the national president for the 12th time. He was the lone candidate to file nomination papers on September 28.
In Sunday’s meeting, Mr. Prasad, who leaves for Singapore on Monday for a kidney transplant appeared in great spirits and spoke at length on the future road map for the party, countering the RSS and BJP agenda at the village level and bringing all Opposition parties together on a central platform to counter Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s personality centric politics.
