The real fight between Jagadanand and Nitish is on: Lalu and Jagadanand talked about JDU-RJD merger, the coordination committee also got stuck

Lalu Prasad, Jagadanand Singh and Nitish Kumar.

The dispute of the state president is still prevailing within Lalu Prasad’s party Rashtriya Janata Dal. On Thursday, Lalu Prasad and Jagdanand Singh had a late talk at Misa Bharti’s residence in Delhi. Lalu Prasad is going to Singapore for kidney transplant on Friday evening.

According to party sources, however, Lalu Prasad has told Jagadanand Singh in front of senior party leader Abdul Bari Siddiqui that I am going to Singapore, you remain on the post of president. But Jagdanand Singh’s displeasure will be considered over only when he starts coming to RJD office. Ever since he announced (on October 2) the resignation of his son Sudhakar Singh as Agriculture Minister, he has not been attending party offices.

Jagdanand Singh is very angry

People associated with RJD say that it is being considered a political defeat of Jagdanand Singh that Lalu Prasad asked his son Sudhakar Singh to quit the ministerial post under the pressure of Nitish Kumar. After that Sudhakar resigned. It is clear from the manner in which Jagdanand Singh announced Sudhakar’s resignation that he is not in favor of this resignation. He called it sacrifice.

Jagdanand Singh does not want that his party’s working style should be affected at the behest or behest of Nitish Kumar, big decisions should be taken ! Jagadanand’s displeasure is so much that when he met Lalu Prasad in Delhi, media persons kept asking question after question, but he remained silent.

Want to bring Sudhakar back to ministerial post!

On the meeting of Lalu Prasad and Jagdanand Singh, party sources say that the merger of RJD and JDU was also discussed in detail. Let us tell you that Prem Kumar Mani, who has been in both the parties, said in a conversation with Bhaskar a month ago – ‘It is natural that JDU and RJD should merge with each other’. It is known that Jagdanand Singh’s focus is more on this formula that there should be a merger and the command of Bihar should come in the hands of Tejashwi Yadav and Nitish Kumar should be the national president.

Actually Jagdanand Singh understands the feeling of Lalu Prasad and wants to see Tejashwi become the Chief Minister of Bihar as soon as possible. They know that when Tejashwi becomes the Chief Minister, Sudhakar Singh will have no problem in continuing as a minister. Neither Jagdanand Singh’s political relations with Nitish Kumar nor his son Sudhakar Singh’s are cordial. To be honest, Jagdanand Singh wants his son Sudhakar Singh to return to the post of minister! It is getting difficult in the present situation. Lalu Prasad and Nitish Kumar have different opinions on this matter. However, Jagdanand Singh has not given any statement related to this.

In the 2020 assembly elections, Sudhakar Singh fought on a BJP ticket, then Jagadanand Singh campaigned for the RJD candidate to defeat him. Sudhakar was defeated. That political event is like Nazir. Now when Sudhakar is in RJD, Jagdanand Singh is standing with Sudhakar.

Coordination committee not formed, Nitish is taking big decisions

The real fight is between Nitish Kumar and Jagadanand Singh. Now Jagadanand Singh wants that a coordination committee should be formed within the Grand Alliance and major decisions should be taken by this committee. Right now, since the leader of the Grand Alliance is Nitish Kumar, he is taking major decisions. Nitish Kumar has shown many times that he is promoting Tejashwi or is very happy with his work. Recently, the way Nitish Kumar celebrated Tejashwi’s birthday by announcing from the stage, it would hardly have been celebrated by any leader before. Parties like Male have also demanded several times to form a coordination committee within the Grand Alliance.

‘Like Tejashwi for Lalu, similarly Sudhakar’s career for Jagadanand’

However, Lalu Prasad has directed Jagadanand Singh to stay on as president, go to the party office and bring everything back on track. But the decision has to be taken by Jagdanand Singh only. They are understanding where the politics is coming from! Political analyst Dhruv Kumar says that both Lalu Prasad and Jagadanand Singh respect each other. Both did not make any statement on each other.

Dhruv Kumar says that Lalu Prasad has not even made anyone else the new president in RJD till now. Jagdanand Singh has recently been re-elected unopposed president in the month of September. The great thing is that the way Tejashwi Yadav’s career is for Lalu Prasad, in the same way Sudhakar Singh’s career is for Jagdanand Singh. If Lalu removes Jagdanand Singh, then he will be politically defeated.

The message will go that Nitish has become heavy. Nitish has already suffered by getting Sudhakar removed. As far as the merger of RJD and JDU is concerned, it is not that easy right now! Nitish knows that there will be a power shift. Where the coordination committee is not being formed, the merger is more difficult. Will have to wait for 2024 for this.