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PATNA: An afternoon after CBI raid at 16 places of RJD leader Lalu Prasad and his members of the family, former deputy leader minister and Rajya Sabha member Sushil Kumar Modi on Saturday sought a answer from the RJD supremo on 5 questions connected to the land for task rip-off throughout his tenure as railway minister.
Sushil Modi, who has been crucial of Lalu and his circle of relatives for an extended, mentioned, “Is it now not true that former union minister Kanti Singh and previous state minister Raghunath Jha had donated their properties in Patna and Gopalganj, respectively in lieu of ministerial berths?”
He posed some other query in quest of a answer on how Lalu and his members of the family were given possession of 141 plots of land, over 30 residences and greater than part a dozen properties in Patna and its suburbs.
“How did he get possession of TISCO’s visitor area positioned close to Patna airport?” he requested.
In a similar fashion, questions associated with plots of land price crores of rupees donated to Rabri Devi and her daughter Hema Yadav through Hridyanand Choudhary and Lalan Choudhary, who labored at Lalu’s ‘khatal’ (cowshed), had been additionally raised.
Whilst Lalan labored as a grade IV worker of the Bihar Legislative Council, Hridyanand served as a gaggle D worker of the Indian railways.
The names of the 2 additionally figured within the contemporary case registered through the CBI in reference to the ‘land for task’ rip-off.
Sushil Modi additionally sought to understand why a senior baby-kisser Shivanand Tiwari (now in RJD) had approached the then High Minister Manmohan Singh in quest of a CBI probe towards Lalu in 2008.
“And now when the CBI has initiated motion, why there’s fuss and factor being given political color,” he requested.
On Friday, the investigating company carried out simultaneous searches at 16 places of Lalu and his members of the family in Patna and Gopalganj districts in Bihar and Misa Bharti’s place of dwelling in New Delhi.
The raiding group recovered a pen power throughout the quest operation at 10 Round Street place of dwelling of former leader minister Rabri Devi in Patna on Friday.
The CBI motion has generated a lot warmth within the political circles within the state.