Reacting to move by Congress leader and former Union minister RPN Singh who was party’s Jharkhand in-charge to quit the party and made his way into the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Congress MLA Ambika Prasad in Jharkhand criticised him.

His criticism surfaced on Tweeter just hours RPN Singh quit the Congress and made his way into the BJP, Prasad said Singh had colluded with the saffron camp “for more than a year” to “overthrow” the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM)-Congress government in the state, ANI quotes him as saying.

“The party leadership was also being frequently warned over this,” wrote Prasad in a post from his official handle on Twitter. “Every true Congress worker and supporter of Jharkhand is happy with his (Singh's) going to the BJP.”

(पिछल एक साल से ज्यादा से बीजेपी के साथ सांठ-गांठ कर आरपीएन सिंह जी झारखंड की कांग्रेस-जेएमएम सरकार को अपदस्थ कराने की कोशिश कर रहे थे। पार्टी नेतृत्व को लगातार इस बारे में आगाह भी किया गया था। इनके बीजेपी जाने से झारखंड का हर सच्चा कांग्रेसी खुश है। @RahulGandhi @kcvenugopalmp). Tweets Congress MLA Ambika Prasad.

Notably, Singh had announced his resignation from Congress earlier in the day. In a letter addressed to interim party president Sonia Gandhi, Singh wrote, “Today, at a time, we are celebrating the formation of our great Republic, I begin a new chapter in my political journey. Jai Hind.”

Popularly known as “Raja Saheb of Padrauna”, the Congress party's Jharkhand in-charge had previously served as the Union minister of state from 2012 to 2014.