LJP tieup left no scope for Akhilesh

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Sources said the RJD’s alliance with the Ram Vilas Paswan-led LJP had left little possibility for former Union minister and Lalu Prasad Yadav confidant Akhilesh Prasad Singh’s nominees being accommodated in the RJD’s list of candidates for the Assembly polls from the seats Mr Singh wanted for them.
Mr Singh quit the RJD after this was made abundantly clear to him, said the sources. Mr Yadav, having sensed Mr Singh’s disenchantment much earlier, had paid him a visit at his home on September 10 and urged him to continue in the party. “But his (Singh’s) ambitions for emerging as a bigger power centre within the RJD by getting tickets for some 10 candidates of his choice finally led him to sever his long ties with the party,” said an RJD MP.
Mr Singh had played a key role in the rise of a robust anti-Nitish Kumar camp within Bihar’s ruling JD(U) in May by closely working and even sharing the stage with three prominent upper-caste JD(U) leaders — Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lallan Singh, Prabhunath Singh and the then alive Digvijay Singh — in their clamorous protests against the land reforms promised by Kumar in the controversial Bataidari Bill. This anti-Nitish camp was said to have been getting clandestine support from the RJD chief.

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Lalu like a monarch: RJD MP
Age Correspondent
with agency inputs
New Delhi

In an embarrassment to the RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav, the party MP Umashankar Singh, who has been sulking since his rival Prabhunath Singh was given a key role in the party, accused the former Bihar CM of functioning like a “monarch”.
Mr Singh, who had defeated Mr Prabhunath Singh in last year’s Lok Sabha elections, had quit the RJD’s Parliamentary board on Friday.