Make JD(U) Bihar’s no. 1 party: Lalan

PATNA: JD(U) national president Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan Singh on Saturday called for mutual compatibility among the party’s office-bearers and workers to achieve the goal of regaining the JD(U)’s status of being the number one political party in Bihar.
With only 43 MLAs in its kitty, the JD(U) has been reduced as number-3 party in Bihar. RJD has 75 and the BJP 74 MLAs.The JD(U) is now struggling hard to regain its status of 2010 when it had won 115 assembly seats and got the status of the number-1 political party in the state.
Addressing the opening day session of the two-day division-wise review meeting of the JD(U), Lalan said the party’s office-bearers and workers should maintain mutual compatibility with each other and work in the interest of the organization.
He said the district heads of different cells would work under the leadership of the respective JD(U) district president to strengthen the organisation.
Party’s MLAs and defeated candidates from 17 districts participated on the first day of the meeting. “JD(U)’s candidates from different assembly constituencies falling under Tirhut, Darbhanga, Saran and Patna divisions expressed their views at the review meeting which was presided over by the party’s state president Umesh Singh Kushwaha. Our national president Lalan Singh attended the meeting as chief guest,” JD(U)’s state vice-president Navin Kumar Arya told TOI over the phone on Saturday.
Kushwaha told the party leaders not to be complacent thinking that since the JD(U) has formed the government in Bihar, their work is over. He asked the party leaders and workers to begin preparations for the 2024 general elections and 2025 Bihar polls.
JD(U)’s state general secretary Vijendra Kumar Singh Yadav who contested the 2020 assembly polls on the party’s symbol from Sandesh assembly seat, complained that leaders from a particular caste have been nominated on many key posts of the party in Bhojpur district. He urged the party leadership to nominate the members from Mahadalit, Dalit and extremely backward caste communities on some of the key posts of the organisation.
Yadav later told TOI that appointments in Bhojpur district were made under pressure from a particular state-level leader.
JD(U)’s state general secretary Mrityunjay Kumar Singh and state secretaries Manish Kumar and Basudeo Kushwaha also attended the review meeting.