Lalu Yadav is chief guest at Congress event today

October 21, 2017 09:25

RJD chief Lalu Prasad is scheduled to be the chief guest at a Congress programme today to celebrate the birth anniversary of first Bihar chief minister Sri Krishna Singh, making the future political move of the Grand Alliance partners clear after the JD-U broke away.

Sri Krishna Singh, also called Sri Babu, a freedom-fighter, had served as the first chief minister of the state from 1946 to 1961.

The birth anniversary programme of Sri Babu is slated to be a major joint show by the Congress and the RJD. It makes the future plan of Sonia Gandhi's party in Bihar clear after Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's JD-U quit the Grand Alliance in July and aligned with the NDA.

"RJD president Lalu Prasad is the chief guest at the birth anniversary function of Sri Krishna Singh at the Samrat Ashok Convention Centre here tomorrow," interim president of Bihar Congress Kaukab Kadri told PTI.

Former Union minister Akhilesh Singh, who has switched over to the Congress from the RJD and is a frontrunner for the post of Bihar Congress chief, is scheduled to be the chairman at the programme.

Hoardings of the event with photographs of Congress president Sonia Gandhi, vice-president Rahul Gandhi and Lalu Prasad have been put up in Bihar.

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