Former Union Minister Raghuvansh Prasad Singh passed away

Former Union Minister Raghuvansh Prasad Singh, 74, passed away after a prolonged illness. He had been admitted in the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi in the second week of August with post COVID-19 complications.

Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020

Key-Points

Raghuvansh Prasad Singh (1946 – 2020) was an Indian politician and was the national vice president of the Rashtriya Janata Dal political party.

He has represented Vaishali constituency from Bihar in Lok Sabha consecutively for five terms and has been in the Union cabinet for three terms.

He was the Union Cabinet Minister for Rural Development in UPA-I of Manmohan Singh’s government and is credited with conceptualization and implementation of NREGA (National rural employment guarantee act).

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