By IANS
New Delhi : Railway Minister Lalu Prasad is set to be elected president of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) for the sixth consecutive time Thursday.
A formal announcement will, however, be made at the party’s national council meeting in Sarnath Saturday.
Lalu Prasad filed his nomination papers for the post at the RJD office here Wednesday amid much fanfare by party workers.
He had floated the party in 1997 after breaking away from the Janata Dal and was elected president of the new outfit.
Under the RJD constitution, organisational elections are held every two years. This is the sixth round of elections, said Ram Chandra Purva, the returning officer for the poll.
In the normal course if any other party member had filed his nomination papers, the polling would have taken place next Saturday. But since no one else had filed papers for the post, Lalu Prasad will stand elected after his papers were scrutinised and found to be in order, he added.
Purva, a senior RJD leader and a former minister in Bihar, told IANS that the party had completed its membership drive in 25 states, where it has units, in June.