Lalu Prasad elected RJD national president for seventh time

Former Railway minister Lalu Prasad was today elected unopposed as the national president of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) for the seventh consecutive term.
    
Party state election officer Jagdanand Singh, an MP, announced the election of Prasad to the party post unopposed at the state party headquarters as only Prasad had filed the papers.
    
Singh said Prasad would assume the post for the seventh consecutive term on January 31 at the historic Gandhi maidan here.