Patna:
John Suraj Party founder Prashant Kishore announced on Monday that former BJP MP Uday Singh has been unanimously elected as its first national president.
Addressing a press conference here, Prashant Kishore said that he would now focus on public outreach, which assigns the organization to run the organization for the choice of Uday Singh and RCP Singh, who joined the party on Sunday.
“I can now resume my ‘padyatra’ in Bihar from tomorrow,” said Prashant Kishore.
Kishore also said that Uday Singh, known for providing logistic support to the party, was “chosen” by a committee established for this purpose, not by a mere majority, but unanimously.
Swimming on October 2 last year, Jaan Suraj Party had been working without a full President since then. While Kishore has made it clear that he would not hold any position with himself, former IPS officer Manoj Bharti was named “Working President” soon after the establishment.
Uday Singh, who won the Purnia Lok Sabha seat for the BJP in 2004 and 2009, is the younger brother of NK Singh, a retired bureaucrat who is also a former Rajya Sabha MP and led the 15th Finance Commission.
Jan Suraj Party’s new nominated National President was in political forest since 2014 when he lost his seat. In the later two Lok Sabha elections, the seat went to Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s JD (U) as part of the system within the NDA.
Kishore proudly mentioned, “The choice of Uday Singh, RCP Singh and Manoj Bharti is proof that our party has a talent pool which is unmatched”.
Nitish Kumar’s former Principal Secretary RCP Singh resigned from the Indian administrative services to join politics, and enjoyed two consecutive Rajya Sabha conditions and also led JD (U) for some time.
He also found a berth in the union cabinet, which angered Kumar, after which he left JD (U) and joined the BJP. Last year, he did ‘AAP SABKI AAWAZ’, which was merged with Jaan Suraj Party on Sunday.
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