PATNA: In a major step towards restructuring its organizational set-up, State JD(U) on Wednesday dissolved its all 33 cells including Yuva JD(U), Mahila JD(U) and Chhatra JD(U) and their all units- right from block-level to the state-level.
All these 33 cells were last re-constituted in the month of March and April this year at the directive of the party’s then national president Ram Chandra Prasad Singh, commonly known as RCP. Most of the appointments in these cells were made at the advice of RCP, sources in the party said.
Thus, in one stroke, thousands of office-bearers of these cells, who were believed to be the supporters of RCP, were made designation-less.
Moreover, the party also terminated all 40 Lok Sabha Kshetra Prabharis and 243 Vidhan Sabha Kshetra Prabharis in the state. All these ‘Prabhari’ (in-charge) were appointed at the advice of RCP when he used to control the organization as its national president.
“JD(U) state president Umesh Singh Kushwaha has terminated the party’s all cells and their all units as well as appointment of all Lok Sabha Kshetra Prabhari and Vidhan Sabha Kshetra Prabhari, with immediate effect,” party’s state general secretary (headquarters) Mrityunjay Kumar Singh told announced the termination of all cells and their units in an one-line statement.
Though the order of termination was officially issued by Kushwaha, insiders said it was done at the directive of the party’s new national president Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan Singh.
Lalan became the JD(U)’s national president on July 31 this year, replacing RCP. Soon after taking the command of the party, Lalan expressed his concern over the constitution of “too many” cells and their “too many” parallel units right from the block level to the state level. Lalan was of the view that these cells were running parallel units in the districts, leading to confusion among the supporters.
Soon after taking over the party’s charge, Lalan had terminated the appointments of Vidhan Sabha Prabharis of different cells. He had also put a break on the further expansion of different cells in the state.
Contacted, the JD(U) state general secretary Mrityunjay Singh told TOI that the cells and their units were terminated after thorough discussion among the top leaders of the party. He said the fresh committees for the dissolved cells would be announced in near future at the advice of the party’s leadership.
“The party has decided to reduce the number of cells. Some of the cells which have no political utility, would be closed,” Mrityunjay said.
