PATNA: JD(U) national president Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan Singh on Saturday called upon the party functionaries to work unitedly to fulfil CM Nitish Kumar’s dream of making JD(U) a national party.
Presiding over a meeting of JD(U)’s national office-bearers here, Singh said, “We have to work unitedly with full dedication and vigour to fulfil Nitish’s dream of making the JD(U) a national party. To achieve this goal, it is necessary that apart from the booth-level office-bearers, each and every worker of the party ensures his/her full participation in the mission.”
Currently, the JD(U) has the status of a ‘state party’ in Bihar and Arunachal Pradesh. It requires to achieve the status of ‘state party’ in two more states to become a national party. The party requires to bag at least 6% of the total polled votes in assembly polls in two more states to achieve the status of a national party. To achieve this goal, the JD(U) has already announced its desire to contest forthcoming assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh and Manipur.
Addressing the meeting, Singh asked the party leaders to work hard to take a good message about the works done by Nitish up to the house of last person of the society. “Nitish has done tremendous work in the field of development and social reforms. We have to inform and educate people about his good works,” the JD(U) chief said.
It was the first meeting of the national office-bearers under the chairmanship of Lalan Singh who was made the party president on July 31 this year, replacing RCP Singh who quit the party’s top post after being inducted as cabinet minister into the Narendra Modi government at the Centre.
“Besides vetting the content of agenda to be discussed at the party’s national council meeting here on Sunday, the crucial meeting of national office-bearers also discussed strategies for strengthening and expanding the organization in more regions and states,” JD(U) national general secretary Afaque Ahmad Khan told TOI over phone.
Khan said the burning issues like caste-based census across the country was also discussed at the meeting. He said the party’s national council meeting has been called to ratify the recent nomination of Lalan Singh as national president and all other resolutions passed by the JD(U) national executive body meeting held in New Delhi on July 31.
Other prominent leaders who attended the office-bearers’ meeting were national parliamentary board chairperson Upendra Kushwaha, national secretary general K C Tyagi, national treasurer and Gopalganj MP Alok Kumar Suman, national general secretary and state’s water resources minister Sanjay Kumar Jha, former minister Ram Sewak Singh Kushwaha, national general secretaries Gulam Rasool Baliyawi, Qamar Alam and Pravin Singh (from Jharkhand), national secretary and Jhanjharour MP Ram Prit Mandal, national secretaries Vidya Sagar Nishad and Sanjay Verma.
