04 July,2021 05:43 AM IST | Patna | Agencies
Lalu Prasad Yadav
Taking a jibe at Nitish Kumar, RJD chief Lalu Prasad said the JD-U leader "passed examination with a third division" and went on to become the Chief Minister of Bihar.
The remark was a reference to the seats won by the Janata Dal-United (JD-U) in the 2020 Bihar Assembly election. Nitish Kumar-led JD-U managed to bag only 40 seats in the last year's Assembly election, and finished with a third position. The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) got 75 seats while the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) secured 74 seats.
"Nitish became Chief Minister of Bihar after putting morality and mandate aside... its result is now coming in the form of their own legislators and ministers levelling corruption charges on the government," Lalu Prasad said in a tweet. Lalu's statement has come at a time when Kumar is facing criticism that officialdom is ruling in the government and public representatives are ignored. He was referring to Madan Sahani, the social welfare minister in the Nitish Kumar-led government, who offered to resign from the post, and also levelled serious allegations on his department's principal secretary Atul Prasad.
Meanwhile, two residents of Patna's Patel Nagar area on Friday levelled a land grab allegation against Ravi Prasad, the brother of Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar, Renu Devi. The owners of the said land, Brahmanand Singh and Shrawan Kumar, have written letters to Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and other top officials of Bihar, including the Chief Secretary and the DGP, to intervene in the matter.
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"Ravi Prasad alias Pinnu along with his associates grabbed my plot in Patel Nagar on June 21. They have even started the construction of a wall on the plot. When we objected to their forcible act, Prasad threatened me with dire consequences..." Brahmanand Singh said.
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