Former Union minister Raghuvansh Prasad Singh passes away

Madan Kumar | TNN & Agencies | Updated: Sep 13, 2020, 13:20 IST

Raghuvansh Prasad Singh (File photo)

PATNA: Former Union minister and veteran socialist leader Raghuvansh Prasad Singh (74), who played a pioneer role in implementation of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) during the UPA government, breathed his last at AIIMS-Delhi on Sunday.

Raghuvansh Prasad Singh Ji is no longer among us. I pay my tributes to him: PM @narendramodi
— narendramodi_in (@narendramodi_in) 1599981049000

प्रिय रघुवंश बाबू! ये आपने क्या किया?मैनें परसों ही आपसे कहा था आप कहीं नहीं जा रहे है। लेकिन आप इतनी दूर चले गए।… https://t.co/WVU3k9SToR
— Lalu Prasad Yadav (@laluprasadrjd) 1599979561000

रघुवंश बाबू के निधन की ख़बर से स्तब्ध हूँ। अत्यंत दुखद समाचार। कई दशकों से कई संघर्षों में हम सब साथ रहे। आज के समय… https://t.co/kWXlDCX96X
— Sitaram Yechury (@SitaramYechury) 1599979259000

राजद के मजबूत स्तम्भ, प्रखर समाजवादी जनक्रांति पुंज हमारे अभिभावक पथ प्रदर्शक आदरणीय श्री रघुवंश बाबू के दुःखद निधन… https://t.co/hsRM3Qprza
— Tejashwi Yadav (@yadavtejashwi) 1599980554000

The end came at around 11.40am this forenoon, Singh's son Satya Prakash Singh who had been attending his father at the hospital, told TOI over phone.

हमारा सिरमौर हमारे बीच नहीं रहा 😭।पूर्व केन्द्रीय मंत्री व @RJDforIndia के वरिष्ठ नेतृत्वकर्ता आदरणीय रघुवंश प्र… https://t.co/zeBiQKA93i
— Tej Pratap Yadav (@TejYadav14) 1599980283000

RJD के वरिष्ठ नेता रहे रघुवंश प्रसाद सिंह जी का निधन बिहार की राजनीति के लिए बड़ा आघात है। रघुवंश बाबू ने हमेशा मु… https://t.co/RUn7EgsjgX
— Ram Vilas Paswan (@irvpaswan) 1599981086000

Singh was admitted at AIIMS-Delhi for the last two weeks after developing some post-Covid-19 complications. Earlier, he was treated for Covid-19 at AIIMS-Patna.

Raghuvansh Prasad Singh quits RJD; Lalu says 'You are not going anywhere, we will talk'

Singh’s last rites would be performed at his native village in Bihar’s Vaishali district, his son said.

Singh's hand-written resignation letter from the RJD had gone viral on social media
Singh, who was the national vice-president of the Lalu Prasad-led RJD, was in news recently after he wrote a letter to his party chief from the hospital, expressing desire to end his relations with the party supremo Lalu Yadav.