RK Singh’s wicket in Arrah may alter the course of ‘power’ play

Former Union Power Minister RK Singh; image courtesy ET

Synopsis
The outgoing minister, who served as home secretary earlier, had a distinct style of functioning that created tremors among various stakeholders. What does the election defeat mean now for them?

In one of the lesser noticed outcomes of Tuesday’s results, RK Singh, the Union Power Minister, who contested on a BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) ticket lost to Sudama Prasad of CPI(ML)L (Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation) by around 60,000 votes. Even as Singhreflects on losing his seat to the same party he had convincingly drubbed in 2019, he finds himself sidelined from the government formation process. The 1975 batch,