
PATNA: Veteran politician and former BJP MP Uday Singh alias Pappu Singh has been unanimously chosen as Jan Suraaj Party's first national president, party founder Prashant Kishor announced while welcoming Singh.
Speaking on the occasion, Singh said that though he has been associated with Jan Suraaj from the very beginning, he decided to formally join the party on Monday.
Kishor said that a strong 150-member core committee of Jan Suraaj unanimously decided the name of Uday Singh alias Pappu Singh for the party’s first president.
Jan Suraaj Party founder Kishor said that he will now concentrate on public outreach, delegating responsibility of running the organisation to the likes of Uday Singh and RCP Singh, who joined the party on Sunday.
“Now I can reassume my ‘padyatra’ in Bihar from May 20,” he told the media in Patna.
Pappu Singh was elected as MP from Purnea Lok Sabha seat twice in 2004 and 2009 on the ticket of BJP. In 2014 and 2019 Lok Sabha elections, he unsuccessfully contested elections on the ticket of Congress. The Purnea seat went to BJP’s ally—JD(U) under seat-sharing arrangement. In 2024 Lok Sabha election, Singh supported Independent candidate Rajesh Ranjan alias Pappu Yadav, who emerged victorious.
Singh is the brother of former bureaucrat turned ex-Rajya Sabha member N K Singh. He met with Prashant Kishor during the latter’s state-level foot march launched on October 2, 2022.
Floated on October 2, 2022, Jan Suraaj Party was running without a full-fledged national president. Former IFS officer Manoj Bharti was appointed working president of the party soon after its inception. Prashant Kishor has already made it clear that he will not keep any post with himself.
The development comes a day after former union minister and ex-JD(U) national president RCP Singh announced the merger of his political outfit Aap Sabki Aawaz with Jan Suraaj Party.
RCP Singh and Prashant Kishor had earlier served as national president and vice-president of JD(U) before they parted ways with Nitish.