RPN Singh, or ‘Richie’, as his friends and supporters call him, is in love with his Diet Coke and chips. This is what he presented daily while meeting journalists in his office at the Congress headquarters. He is also known to be an avid smoker but decided to cut it down when health issues surfaced.
RPN Singh, along with his middle voice, was chosen by Rahul Gandhi as one of the key members of his team. He also shared a warm relationship with Sonia Gandhi, so that whenever the Congress President visited that part of Uttar Pradesh, he would stay at his family’s home in Padrauna.
Anyone who meets Singh is mesmerized by his casual conversational style. But behind this calm demeanor lies a shrewd strategist who knows this kind of personal communication and jokes work best in the heartland state of Uttar Pradesh. This certainly ensured his victory in the 2004 elections by a huge margin, which catapulted him to the rank of Minister of State for Home, a powerful post for a new entrant.
It is this casual and polite style that prompted Rahul Gandhi to choose Singh as Jharkhand in-charge. Jharkhand is a state which is known to many people. turncoat politician And it was a big task for the lion to keep the herd together. Singh shifted base to Ranchi to run in the fray and kept himself standing there for months to form the Congress-JMM government.
Many times disgruntled MLAs used to come to threaten to resign. Singh put his hand on her shoulder to change his mind and shooed her away for tea and snacks. There will be a settlement on simple samosas.
RPN Singh is moving into new territory after leaving the Congress on Tuesday and joining the BJP, an approach that many feel the old party has even more so now. There are no skilled strategists like Ahmed Patel and Pranab Mukherjee. RPN Singh understood the importance of engaging with your target audience and even managed to mingle with the upmarket crowd of Delhi.
However, sources say that it is his outspokenness that soured the ties between Singh and the Congress. At the 2019 Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting convened to review the Lok Sabha election defeat, RPN Singh was the only team Rahul Gandhi member reported that personal attacks were launched against Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
This came as a blow to the Gandhi family, especially Rahul, who coined the slogan ‘Chowkidar Chor Hai’. While the Gandhi family did not say much then, the fact was clear that they were unhappy. In fact, Rahul Gandhi reportedly told some of his team members that he thought they would stand by him during the election, he did not.
The nail on it kept widening. As Priyanka Gandhi Vadra took charge of the affairs of Uttar Pradesh, RPN Singh was rarely seen in and around her campaigns. There came a time when she got information about Priyanka’s UP visit from journalists instead of internal dialogue. As soon as Priyanka Gandhi formed her new team, many people like Jitin Prasad and RPN Singh did not find a place.
When Jitin Prasada joined the BJP last year, RPN Singh was also asked about his next move. “Everyone finds their own calling. Mine is still with the Congress,” he had told News18.com.
One measure of who is important to the Gandhi family depends on who accompanies them to the Congress headquarters. Ahmed Patel was always seen getting down with Sonia Gandhi. One time RPN Singh will be with Rahul Gandhi. But soon, they were replaced by new leaders. It was clear to Singh that he would now have to find a new path and go along with the new leaders.
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