RCP Singh units tongues wagging inside JD(U)

By PTI

NEW DELHI: JD(U) chief and Union minister R C P Singh on Thursday set tongues wagging inside his celebration with strident criticism of the selection of Jawaharlal Nehru because the nation’s prime minister, a longstanding BJP plank, and claiming that he bought the highest submit regardless of having fun with little help within the Congress’ organisation and it was our “first mistake”.

The former JD(U) president’s sharp tackle Nehru is important as Nitish Kumar, the celebration’s primary face and Bihar chief minister, just isn’t actually identified for holding sturdy views towards India’s first prime minister and has previously even praised him.

Speaking at a seminar on “Threat of Dynastic Political Parties to Democratic Governance”, organised by RSS-linked Rambhau Mhalgi Prabodhini, Singh additionally countered the Congress’ repeated emphasis about leaders from the Gandhi household making sacrifice for the nation, saying one has to bear no matter comes with the submit she or he holds.

People like Bhagat Singh additionally made sacrifices with out holding any place, he mentioned.

Singh, as soon as thought of a confidant of the chief minister, was additionally not current in Patna on Thursday the place high celebration leaders, together with Kumar, accompanied its Rajya Sabha bypoll candidate Anil Hegde in the course of the nomination submitting.

A bit of JD(U) leaders declare that Singh, the one chief of the celebration within the Narendra Modi authorities, has veered nearer to the BJP, with the relation between the 2 events seemingly removed from clean though each are allies in Bihar.

His time period as Rajya Sabha member can be ending, and the JD(U) is but to announce its candidate for the lone full-term seat it is able to win.

The final date of submitting the nomination is May 31. It is important for any minister to be a member of Parliament. “He does not attend other senior party leaders in the filing of nomination by its Rajya Sabha candidate and attends an event in Delhi to make strong remarks about Nehru which has never been Kumar’s view. This speaks a lot,” a JD(U) chief mentioned, wishing to not be named.

In his deal with, Singh instructed that Nehru was chosen as prime minister because of the backing of Mahatma Gandhi. “I cannot like to call that ‘yug purush’ (character of the period). When the query got here up for the primary time who ought to be prime minister, then who had the help of the organisation, who had the votes, who had the backing of extra CWC (Congress Working Committee) members? But the one with no vote turned the nation’s first prime minister.

This choice can’t be challenged as a result of the particular person, he added in obvious reference to Mahatma Gandhi with out naming him, is so respectable to us, however it at the least may be mentioned after so a few years that that is the place our first mistake was made, Sardar Patel had every part however he didn’t get the submit, Singh mentioned.

The BJP has repeatedly questioned the selection of Nehru as India’s first prime minister, saying Patel loved extra help throughout the Congress and would have made a more sensible choice for the submit.

Continuing together with his assault on the Congress, the Union minister alleged the loss of life of the then prime minister Indira Gandhi was intentionally introduced hours after her precise demise in order to make preparations for her son Rajiv Gandhi to take over.

He additionally lashed out on the Congress for not giving Bharat Ratna, Indian’s highest civilian honour, to Patel and B R Ambedkar for many years of its rule and slammed Nehru, noting that he was given the award when he was prime minister.

“They (Congress) will repeatedly say that their family members made sacrifice for the country; our family members were killed. This is true but so many people made sacrifices for the country’s independence. If you are holding a position, then you will have to bear with it whatever comes along. But they keep saying we made sacrifices. People from entire country made sacrifices,” he added.

Singh battled for a legislation to cease multiple member of a household from holding positions in a celebration and authorities.

In this context, he additionally praised Kumar and Modi for shunning promotion of their households and mentioned complete Bihar and the nation are their respective household. Heaping reward on Modi, he cited quite a lot of the central authorities schemes, saying they’ve geared toward uplift of the poor sections of society.