Later, speaking to reporters after the party's national council meeting in Delhi, he said that he has accepted the post of the national president of the party.
Addressing the media after the meeting, JD(U) leader KC Tyagi said, "After the resignation of Rajiv Ranjan (Lalan) Singh, CM Nitish Kumar has been elected as the new national president of the party..."
Rajiv Ranjan (Lalan) Singh tendered his resignation as Janata Dal-United national president amid speculations of a leadership change, sources said on Friday.
Amid speculations on his potential elevation as Janata Dal (United) national president, Bihar Minister Vijay Kumar Choudhary dismissed all reports and said that Lalan Singh, present national president of the party, is working fine.
Congress National President Mallikarjun Kharge has called for a meeting of the newly appointed party's general secretaries and state in-charges tomorrow in Maharashtra's Nagpur.
Amid the bitter war of words between the Centre and the Opposition over a viral video of suspended TMC MP Kalyan Banerjee purportedly mocking the mannerisms of Jagdeep Dhankhar, Congress national president Mallikarjun Kharge on Monday wrote to the Rajya Sabha Chairman, expressing his inab
"Bharatiya Janata Party's National President, JP Nadda, has appointed Kiran Singh Dev as the Chhattisgarh party president. The appointment will come into force with immediate effect," the party said on Thursday.
After Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Kalyan Banerjee was seen mimicking Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) National President JP Nadda on Wednesday condemned the opposition and compared them with "jokers".
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) National President JP Nadda on Monday said that he has received the report from the party's fact-finding team constituted to enquire about the atrocity committed against a tribal woman in Karnataka's Belagavi.
"BJP's rule in Karnataka witnessed multiple instances of violence against women, but BJP National President J P Nadda has forgotten this to politically target us. Unfortunately, he is using a recent incident of violence against a woman in Belagavi for politics," Siddaramaiah posted on X.