PM Narendra Modi called in Draupadi Murmu's nomination and made him sit in the first line

Delhi: During the nomination of National Democratic Alliance's (NDA) candidate Draupadi Murmu for the presidential election, Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi called the BJP's ally Janata Dal United President and MP Rajeev Ranjan Singh alias Lalan Singh ahead in the NDA. After one chair from his chair on the chairs in the first row, he was seated next to BJP President Jagat Prakash Nadda. Apart from PM Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, Defense Minister Rajnath Singh, Nadda and Lalan Singh were sitting with Murmu in the first row during the nomination. Chief ministers of many states were seen sitting in the second row during this period.

JDU is the second largest party in NDA after BJP, so it is only fair that Lalan Singh should be given importance in the nomination of NDA candidate. But Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself should take care of such a fine formality and not seeing Lalan Singh around, call him by name Lalan ji and indicate that your chair is here, this is a very special thing. Lalan Singh comes forward after the PM's call and sits on the chair next to JP Nadda on Modi's right.

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Due to PM Modi doing this, the sense of Lalan Singh has suddenly increased in the Delhi Durbar, where after two weeks, the Rajya Sabha term of RCP Singh, the only JDU minister in the Union Cabinet, is ending. Even when RCP Singh became the Union Minister, the speculation was that two ministers would be made from JDU and the other minister would be Lalan Singh. It was argued that LJP has one minister for 6 MPs and JDU has two ministers on 16 MPs.

Nitish Kumar had authorized RCP Singh, who was also the party's president at that time, to talk to the BJP on how many ministers could become from the party. But RCP Singh became the lone minister and Nitish Kumar is believed to have become angry with him since then. The resentment has now increased so much that he was not made MP again. Even the bungalow in Patna in which he had lived in the name of JDU's MLC Sanjay Gandhi for 12 years was allotted to the Chief Secretary and vacated.