PATNA: JD(U) national president Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan Singh on Friday reached the party’s state office here and held a meeting with senior leaders to review the ongoing preparations for hosting the party’s national council meeting.
JD(U) has convened its national council meeting in the state capital on August 29 to ratify the recent ‘nomination’ of Lalan Singh as its national president, and other decisions taken at the party’s national executive body meet held in Delhi on July 31.
The national council meeting would be held at Karpoori Thakur Sabhagar inside the JD(U) state office. "A day before the national council meet, a meeting of the party’s national office-bearers has also been convened at the same venue on August 28," the party’s national general secretary Afaque Ahmad Khan told TOI over phone on Friday.
Khan said the national president Lalan Singh reviewed the preparations to be doubly sure that no shortcomings remain in hosting the party leaders coming from other states.
Khan, who has already arrived in the state capital to attend the party meeting, said all preparations for both the meetings had been completed and the JD(U) leaders from other states and the national capital have already begun arriving here.
He said prominent party leaders who have arrived in Patna are national secretary general K C Tyagi, national election officer Anil Hegde (from Karnataka) and Raj Singh Man (from Delhi state).
More than 250 delegates including the party’s national office-bearers, MPs, MLAs, state presidents and other senior leaders from 23 states and union territories would participate in the national council meeting, Khan said, adding altogether 18 leaders would attend the meeting of national office-bearers.
Sources said, neither CM Nitish Kumar nor Union minister RCP Singh is currently national office-bearers of the party. Hence, both would not attend the meeting of the national office bearers. Being the chairman of the party’s national parliamentary board, Upendra Kushwaha is one of the national office-bearers. Kushwaha would attend the meeting of office-bearers to be presided over by Lalan Singh.
