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How Bihar's social experiment came to an end

It is now a different time in Bihar. It is a different place - one in which NREGA man Raghuvansh Prasad Singh's options are very limited

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5 min read Last Updated : Jun 27 2020 | 2:53 AM IST

Raghuvansh Prasad Singh, former Union minister for rural development and the man behind NREGA (National Rural Employment Guarantee Act), has resigned from all positions in the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD). With this, a social experiment in Bihar has come to an end.

Some background. It was March 1990. V P Singh had become Prime Minister and Devi Lal Deputy Prime Minister just a few months earlier, following the historic Janata Dal Parliamentary Party meeting in the Central Hall of Parliament, from which Chandrashekhar strode away in bad grace, furious at having been short-changed by Devi Lal (who, having assured him

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Topics : Bihar government Lalu Prasad Yadav NREGA Rashtriya Janata Dal

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