RJD's Raghuvansh Singh joins issue with Tejashwi over 'no

Fissures within the opposition RJD in Bihar came to the fore on Sunday when one of its founding members sought to join issue with heir apparent Tejashwi Yadav over his proclamation of "no entry" for Chief Minister Nitish Kumar into the multi-party Grand Alliance.

Former Union minister Raghuvansh Prasad Singh, one of the national vice-presidents of the RJD, spoke disapprovingly of the remark made by Yadav jailed founding president Lalu Prasad's younger son at a meeting of the party's minority cell here last week.

"It does not sound like a political comment. And where does the question of no entry arise when we have not yet received a request for entry, in the first place," Singh told reporters, when asked about the stance adopted by Yadav, who has been declared the party's chief ministerial candidate for next assembly polls.

He also remarked wryly that "people tend to initially disagree with every idea that I propose. They tend to concur six months afterwards.

Notably, Singh has been advocating Kumar's return to the Grand Alliance - which the latter walked out of in 2017
The RJD, which was floated by Lalu Prasad in 1997, contested 19 seats but drew a blank in the Lok Sabha elections