Will Nitish continue to trouble BJP through RCP?

Patna: Central Government Minister RCP Singh has not resigned yet and his party Janata Dal (U) did not give him a Rajya Sabha ticket. He was hoping that the BJP could send him to the Upper House from somewhere but the party did not even consider him. Despite this, he is not resigning. Chief Minister Nitish Kumar did not give him a ticket and said that if his term is not over yet, then he does not need to resign.

Think, his term is till July but isn’t it a moral requirement that he should resign when he is not nominated to the Upper House? If he continues, he can stay for six months even after the term of the Rajya Sabha is over. If the Prime Minister wants, he can keep him as a minister for six months even after July or can also nominate him to the Rajya Sabha. But this will happen only when the BJP thinks that it has to break ties with Nitish Kumar in Bihar. However, RCP Singh has been a government official and leaving the post even a day before the completion of his term will not be an easy decision for him.

Apart from RCP, the suspense about JD(U) is whether the party will remain in the government? At present, JD(U)’s only representative in the central government is RCP Singh. It is said that he had joined the government against the wishes of Nitish Kumar, so Nitish did not send him to the Rajya Sabha. JD(U) has 17 MPs in Lok Sabha and five in Rajya Sabha. Based on the number of Lok Sabha members, JDU had demanded three ministerial posts. BJP, on the other hand, made a formula that an ally with one MP would also have a minister and an ally with 17 MPs would also have only one minister.

This formula of one minister from every ally was not acceptable to Nitish Kumar. Despite this, RCP had become a minister. Now again it is being speculated whether BJP will agree to Nitish’s formula and if BJP does not agree then what will JD(U) do? According to informed sources, JD(U) may agree on one cabinet and one MoS post. If this happens, this time BJP’s national president Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lallan Singh can become a cabinet minister and Santosh Kushwaha can become a minister of state (MoS). RCP Singh had also become a minister at the Center as the national president and later resigned from the post of president.