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NEW DELHI: Former national president of JD (U) Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan Singh on Saturday strongly refuted reports that he was ousted from the national presidentship of party because of growing proximity with RJD leader Tejasvi Yadav.
Contradicting some reports that appeared in the media, Singh stated in a release that some malicious reports had surfaced regarding his resignation. He alleged, “For the last week, a lot of misleading and factless news about our party Janata Dal(United) and me has been published by a section of the media”,
He added that the reporters are misleading and wrong and being refuted and contradicted by him. He also alleged that an attempt was made to question the 37-year-old relationship between him and CM Nitish Kumar.
“Those spreading such factless news must be evil-minded. I will issue a legal notice to all the organizations doing this and will file a defamation case against them for tarnishing my image”, he warned.
Lallan Singh vehemently denied all rumours and allegations stating him being with RJD leader Tejasvi Yadav and made any attempt to make him CM. He dismissed such rumours as lies. He further
added that he was in Delhi with CM Nitish Kumar on December 20 and attended a meeting with all MPs at the CM’s residence in Delhi in the evening of December 20.
He denied that a meeting of MLAs was held at the office of a minister which appeared in a section of media ‘wrong and misleading’. He spelt out the reason behind quitting the post of national prudent saying that he resigned from the post because of being busy in his parliamentary constituency and handed over the
responsibility to CM Nitish Kumar with his consent. He is a JDU MP from Bihar’s Munger LS seat. “Nitish Kumar ji has taken this responsibility himself and those who had published the misleading news will fall flat soon”, he claimed.
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