PATNA: Union steel minister R C P Singh on Monday denied any factionalism in his Janata Dal (United) and said, “Our party has only one leader and that is Nitish Kumar. All JD(U) leaders work under the leadership of Nitish.”
“As per the party’s name, we all are ‘united’. There are no differences between Lalan Babu (party president Rajiv Ranjan alias Lalan Singh) and me. I have a very cordial relation with Lalan Babu,” RCP said while addressing party workers at the JD(U) state office here. The meeting was organized to welcome RCP on his maiden visit to the state capital after becoming the Union minister.
Lalan replaced RCP as the JD(U) national president on July 31 this year.
Earlier, RCP was asked by the party’s national leadership to quit the president’s post days after he took oath as a cabinet minister in the Narendra Modi government on July 7 this year.
Responding to his warm welcome by the party workers, RCP said, “Different stories were told about me. It was also propagated that I became a Union minister on my own decision. I want to make it clear here that till date I did not do anything without the permission of Nitish babu.”
RCP also said he would not leave the organization work even after becoming a Union minister.
“Whatever work I have been doing for the organization so far, I will continue to do. Not only up to the district headquarters, I will visit even the booth-level party colleagues/workers and express my gratitude to all of them. All party MPs, MLAs and ministers are holding their posts because of their blessings,” RCP said.
Earlier, the JD(U) workers led by the state party president Umesh Singh Kushwaha accorded a warm welcome to RCP when he landed at the Patna airport this afternoon.
