4089 Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar along with newly-elected Janata Dal (United) national president RCP Singh during a national executive meeting, at party office, in Patna, on Sunday, December 27, 2020. PTI
Patna, December 27
Bureaucrat-turned-politician Ram Chandra Prasad Singh, better known by his initials RCP, owes his rise to become the president of the Janata Dal (United) to Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.
Singh, a close confidant of Kumar, was on Sunday chosen as the new president of the JD(U).
At the party’s national executive meeting, Kumar proposed the name of Singh for the top post and it was then approved by other members.
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