New Delhi, Sep 13 (IANS): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday condoled the death of former Union Minister Raghuvansh Prasad Singh, who passed away at AIIMS in Delhi, and described him as someone who understood poverty.
"At the beginning of the programme, I have a sad news to share with you. The veteran leader of Bihar, Raghuvansh Prasad Singh, is no longer with us. I bow to him," Modi said at the outset of inauguration of three metro projects in Bihar.
Modi said that Raghuvansh 'Babu's' demise had created a void in the politics of Bihar and the country. "A person associated with land, a person who understood poverty, spent his entire life in the struggle of Bihar," the PM said.
The veteran politician, who recently resigned from the Rashtriya Janata Dal, succumbed to post-COVID illness at All India Institute of Medical Sciences here on Sunday.