By means of PTI
PATNA: Top drama used to be witnessed on the RJD headquarters right here on Monday when an office-bearer of its adolescence wing arrived saying that he used to be resigning in protest towards alleged misbehaviour of Tej Pratap Yadav, the mercurial elder son of nationwide president Lalu Prasad.
Ramraj Yadav, who heads town unit of Yuva RJD, alleged that he used to be stripped, crushed up and abused via Tej Pratap, with the assistance of his unswerving supporters, inside of the home of the latter’s mom Rabri Devi on Friday when the home of the previous Leader Minister used to be teeming with guests at an Iftar birthday party she had hosted.
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The guests integrated the highest brass of RJD but even so Leader Minister Nitish Kumar, state industries minister Syed Shahnawaz Hussain and previous LJP president Chirag Paswan, amongst others.
“I used to be assigned to appear after the preparations at probably the most a lot of tents submit within the bungalow. Tej Pratap were given livid upon recognizing me, even though I used to be there armed with birthday party conversation. He took me inside of a room the place his males took off my garments and beat me up”, alleged the birthday party chief.
He claimed that Tej Pratap stored egging on his henchmen whilst Ramraj used to be being humiliated and that he even were given all of the episode videographed.
“I problem Tej Pratap to come back out in public with the video. Other folks will see his actual face. He used expletives, no longer simply towards me, however (more youthful brother) Tejashwi Yadav or even (father) Lalu Prasad”, alleged Ramraj who claimed that he had introduced the topic to the attention of Tejashwi and state unit president Jagadanand Singh.
“Tej Pratap had threatened to get me killed. He even named a birthday party MLA with prison antecedents whom he meant to pitch in for purchasing me got rid of. My hair nonetheless stands on finish once I recall all of the episode. The birthday party management appears to be in no temper to behave. So right here I’m with my resignation”, mentioned Rajaram.
RJD resources had been, predictably, tight-lipped over the episode which comes as the most recent controversy surrounding the maverick elder son of the birthday party’s founding leader.
In lively politics for not up to a decade, Tej Pratap has been within the information for all of the incorrect causes, starting from his private lifestyles to his run-ins with the ones lively within the birthday party.
Tejashwi, the RJD inheritor obvious and the chief of the opposition within the state meeting, who’s continuously himself on the receiving finish of his elder brother’s tantrums, used to be requested concerning the episode via newshounds.
He selected to speed previous, muttering below his breath that the topic will likely be investigated.
In the meantime, the BJP which has at all times been fast to fish in waters each time the temperamental Tej Pratap courts an argument, promptly got here out with a response.
BJP OBC morcha nationwide common secretary and state spokesperson Nikhil Anand underscored Rajaram’s competition that Yadavs had been ill-treated within the RJD, however the truth that its first circle of relatives belonged to the caste.
“It sort of feels Tej Pratap has a grouse towards Yadavs who’re well-educated, in particular the ones hailing from Patna district”, mentioned Anand, himself a Yadav, who additionally recalled the circumstances involving former Union minister and Ram Kripal Yadav and Sanoj Yadav, either one of whom are actually with BJP.
Ram Kripal Yadav used to be noticed as Lalu Prasad’s Guy Friday till he broke ranks in 2014, fought on a BJP price ticket and defeated his former mentor’s daughter Misa Bharti.
Well-liked in Patna since he used to be the Deputy Mayor a long time in the past, Ram Kripal is alleged to had been disenchanted over the remedy he won from the RJD supremo’s elder son.
Sanoj Yadav had hand over the birthday party in 2017 after Tej Pratap, then the state well being minister, had beat him up at an Iftar birthday party hosted via Prasad, who used to be then out of prison.