Bihar mourns death of two top leaders

Jun 25, 2010 - AGE CORRESPONDENT |

Patna

The sudden death of two leading Bihar politicians — senior state minister Sudha Srivastava and flamboyant MP and former Union minister Digvijay Singh — in two days has spread a wave of sorrow across the state.
Singh, a former JD(U) leader and sitting MP from Banka, died at a hospital in London on Thursday following a brain haemorrhage at the age of 55 while Srivastava, the minister for planning and development in Nitish Kumar’s Bihar government, breathed her last at the Patna Medical College and Hospital at the age of 77 on Tuesday evening.
Niece of Jaya Prakash Narayan, Srivastava was rushed to the PMCH soon after returning to Patna from an official function in Bhagalpur. The Bihar government announced a two-day state mourning for the late JD(U) minister, a four-time MLA from Nathnagar in Bhagalpur. Srivastava, who also served as health minister in Lalu Prasad Yadav’s government, is survived by two sons and three daughters.
The two departed leaders received copiously heartfelt condolences from Bihar governor Devanand Konwar, chief minister Nitish Kumar, JD(U) president Sharad Yadav, RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav, LJP chief Ram Vilas Paswan and all other Bihar leaders cutting across party lines.
Singh’s untimely demise came as a shock to most politicians in Bihar, especially many in the JD(U) who had joined him in raising a banner of protest against Nitish Kumar. A prominent upper-caste leader, Singh had turned rebel after being denied a JD(U) ticket for the 2009 Lok Sabha polls and won from Banka as an independent candidate.
Along with influential upper-caste anti-Nitish JD(U) leaders like Munger MP Rajiv Ranjan Sngh alias Lallan and former MP Prabhunath Singh, he was working on a new political front to contest against the JD(U) in the coming Assembly polls.

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Very important news for Bihar

Prashant

25 Jun 2010 - 17:36

Very important news for Bihar politics.More details were needed.

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