Tag: RJD

  • Rahul’s feedback at regional events ‘peculiar’, out of sync with Congress’ personal declaration: RJD

    He referred to the Congress declaration on the camp to take a swipe at him, announcing Gandhi will revise his remark if he appears at information. These types of statements haven’t any traction with historical past, he stated

  • Contemporary fees filed towards RJD supremo Lalu Prasad in Bihar courtroom

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    PATNA: Bother for Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) supremo Lalu Prasad appears to be a ways from over. On Wednesday, fees have been framed towards him in Bihar’s Hajipur courtroom in reference to a case associated with violation of election fee’s style code of habits and inflammatory remarks at a public assembly.

    Lalu Prasad is lately present process remedy at All India Institute of Clinical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, after being launched on bail from Ranchi prime courtroom in reference to the Doranda district treasury extra withdrawal case, an off shoot of multi-crore animal husbandry rip-off in undivided Bihar. Lalu is a named accused in a case lodged with Ganga Bridge police station in Vaishali district.

    The case pertains to the violation of the style code of habits and instigating other people at a public assembly throughout meeting polls at Terasia village close to Hajipur on September 27, 2015. The case used to be lodged at the written criticism of then circle officer Niranjan Kumar, who used to be deployed on the venue of the general public assembly as a Justice of the Peace. On October 2, 2015, the investigating officer submitted the chargesheet within the case. The courtroom took cognisance on February 11, 2019.

    On April 18 this 12 months, Lalu used to be deposed ahead of the courtroom thru a video conferencing gadget. Despite the fact that Lalu denied the fees levelled towards him, fees have been framed by means of the courtroom on Wednesday. “Now the trial will get started within the case,” an assistant public prosecutor mentioned.

    In the meantime, RJD spokesperson Chitranjan Gagan mentioned that Lalu Prasad is more likely to discuss with Patna on April 30. He’ll be launched from AIIMS-Delhi on Thursday and go away for Patna after staying at his eldest daughter Misa Bharti’s Delhi place of abode for a few days.

  • RJD chief alleges attack via Lalu’s son Tej Pratap at Rabri Devi’s Iftar

    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.

    ALSO READ: Lalu Prasad Yadav’s elder son Tej Pratap to hand over RJD quickly

    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.

  • Bihar CM Nitish Kumar attends opposition RJD’s Iftar birthday celebration, triggers political row

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    PATNA: Bihar leader minister Nitish Kumar on Friday attended a Dawat-e-Iftar organised by means of major opposition Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) at former leader minister Rabri Devi’s place of dwelling at 10, Round Highway, in Patna, triggering a political row.

    Chief of opposition Tejashwi Prasad Yadav, his elder brother Tej Pratap Yadav, Rajya Sabha MP Misa Bharti had been amongst the ones observed sitting beside Nitish who was once observed chatting with Tejashwi and exchanged pleasantaries at the instance.

    Nitish’s attendance Iftar birthday celebration hosted by means of RJD happened an afternoon earlier than Union Minister Amit Shah’s discuss with to Jagdishpur in Bhojpur district to wait Veer Kunwar Singh ‘vijayotsava’. Additionally, it came about at a time when the connection between the BJP and JDU is bitter.

    Each BJP and JDU had been at loggerheads over plethora of problems starting from prohibition, caste-based census, legislation and order to state BJP management. Resources additionally stated that Nitish walked from his reliable place of dwelling in 1 Anne Marg to the venue.

    Previous, operating chairman of Bihar legislative council Awadhesh Narain Singh and state industries minister Syed Shahnawaz Hussain paid a discuss with to the birthday celebration.

    The Iftar birthday celebration has been organised at Rabri Devi’s place of dwelling after an opening of 5 years. Closing week, Nitish had hosted an Iftar birthday celebration at his 1 Anne Marg place of dwelling, which was once attended by means of a number of ministers, MLAs and MLCs.

  • Speculations rife on Nitish changing into subsequent Vice-President as Rabri Devi makes arguable touch upon Bihar CM

    Via PTI

    PATNA: Former Bihar Leader Minister Rabri Devi on Thursday indicated that she is not going to thoughts Nitish Kumar, her husband Lalu Prasad’s arch rival, vacating his chair for a luxurious project in Delhi.

    The RJD chief was once replying to questions from newshounds who had been seeking to make sense of a reportedly off-the-cuff statement through Kumar which has caused livid speculations that he would possibly transfer to Delhi as the following Vice President of the rustic.

    “He will have to cross. Everybody would love him to depart. (jana hello chahiye.Sabhi log chahenge ki chale jaayein”), she stated replying to queries concerning the cryptic statement made through Kumar that he were a member of each Homes within the state legislature and the Lok Sabha and a time period in Rajya Sabha would whole his political adventure.

    To a pointed question about speculations that Kumar may just emerge because the BJP’s selection for the publish of Vice-President after the expiry of Venkaiah Naidu’s time period in a couple of months, the reticent Rabri Devi repied “achcha hello na rahega (will it now not be just right for him?)”.

    Kumar is reported to have made the Rajya Sabha statement right through an off-the-cuff chat with some newshounds who had requested him about his contemporary excursion of spaces falling underneath the now abolished Barh Lok Sabha constituency which he had represented repeatedly.

    The newshounds had queried, it appears in a jocular vein, whether or not Kumar had plans to contest parliamentary elections once more.

    A bit of the media has since been operating studies speculating that the JD(U) chief, who has been in continual in Bihar since 2005 and has change into the longest serving Leader Minister of the state, may just transfer to Delhi for a best constitutional publish.

    The studies additionally declare that he may conform to a brand new power-sharing components within the state the place the BJP, which had gained way more seats than the JD(U) within the 2020 meeting polls, might be allowed to have its personal Leader Minister.

    By the way, Bihar stays the one state in all the “Hindi belt” the place the BJP hasn’t ever had its personal Leader Minister.

    BJP leaders like MLA Vinay Bihari have brazenly pitched for “our personal CM” whilst taking care so as to add that the general choice rests with the nationwide management.

    Upon returning to continual for his fourth consecutive time period in place of work, Kumar had claimed that he had, following the JD(U)’s slightly deficient efficiency in polls, expressed the will to step down and make method for the BJP however relented simplest after the alliance spouse insisted that he proceed occupying the highest publish.

    Nevertheless, the state’s hyperactive hearsay invoice is busy popping out with names of BJP leaders who may just make it within the tournament of Kumar’s departure.

    The “front-runners” come with Nityanand Rai, the Minister of State for House recognized to be depended on through each Top Minister Narendra Modi and House Minister Amit Shah , whose elevation brings the promise of breaching the sway of the RJD, the primary opposition birthday party, over the sizeable Yadav group.

    In the meantime, all eyes are mounted at your next step through Kumar, a deft participant of the sport of politics, who had cryptically advised an election rally in 2020 that it was once his “aakhiri chunav”, simplest to reiterate later “I will be able to proceed to paintings for the folks of Bihar for so long as they want”.

  • RJD leader Lalu Prasad Yadav to spend Holi in custody; Jharkhand HC adjourns subject to April 1

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    RANCHI: RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav should spend ‘Holi’ in custody because the Jharkhand Top Courtroom on Friday adjourned his petition for suspension of sentence in a fodder rip-off case to April 1.

    The HC known as for the decrease court docket information within the case on fraudulent withdrawals from Doranda treasury within the fodder rip-off involving Prasad, a former union minister and previous Bihar leader minister.

    Justice Aparesh Kumar Singh adjourned the listening to within the petition to April 1.

    Prasad’s petition searching for bail within the case will now be heard after receipt of the decrease court docket information from the particular CBI court docket, which had convicted Prasad and sentenced him to 5 years in custody and slapped a tremendous of Rs 60 lakh on him on February 15.

    The rip-off associated with withdrawal of Rs 139.35 crore from the Doranda treasury in 1995-96 when he was once the manager minister of the erstwhile undivided Bihar.

    He was once sentenced on February 21.

    The RJD chief, who was once on bail, had surrendered prior to the CBI court docket and is in custody since February 15.

    He had moved Jharkhand Top Courtroom on February 24 difficult his conviction and sentence through the court docket right here.

    He’s now in Rajendra Institute of Clinical Sciences right here for the tracking of his scientific situation.

    The fodder rip-off is pegged at Rs 950 crore.

    The cash was once withdrawn from quite a lot of treasuries thru faux challans and expenses through the animal husbandary division.

    Prasad, who was once the manager minister on the time, additionally held the portfolio of the finance division and had allegedly gained large kickbacks.

  • Congress able for showdown with RJD; declares applicants for MLC polls in Bihar

    Via PTI

    PATNA: The Congress on Saturday got here out with the names of its applicants for 8 out of 24 seats in Bihar legislative council for which polls are scheduled subsequent month, in a transparent sign to domineering former best friend RJD that it was once unwilling to head down with no struggle.

    The checklist of 8 applicants was once issued via AICC basic secretary Mukul Wasnik with the approval of celebration president Sonia Gandhi, with whom RJD supremo Lalu Prasad’s very good private rapport has proved to be of no avail.

    Polling is scheduled for the 24 seats on April 4.

    A few of the seats for which the Congress got here out with names of its applicants is West Champaran (Mohd Afaq Ahmed).

    The Congress had received the seat in 2015 however its MLC Rajesh Ram crossed over to Leader Minister Nitish Kumar’s JD(U) remaining 12 months.

    “We perceive that is the primary checklist. Extra names, for different seats, are anticipated in a while”, state Congress media in-charge Rajesh Rathore instructed PTI.

    The RJD, which had rebuffed the Congress in October remaining 12 months when it fielded its applicants for by-polls to 2 meeting polls ignoring protestations of the latter, is contesting 23 seats, leaving one for the Left.

    The Congress-RJD alliance in Bihar, which has been in position for greater than 20 years regardless of minor ups and downs, goes via a coarse patch for the reason that meeting elections of 2020.

    The Grand Alliance comprising the 2 events but even so CPI(ML), CPI(M), and CPI post a greater than anticipated efficiency however fell in need of a majority.

    The Congress was once singled out for its deficient efficiency because it had contested 70 seats however may win not up to 20.

    Issues reached a flashpoint all over by-polls for Tarapur and Kusheshwar Asthan meeting segments.

    There were speculations in a bit of the media that the RJD has been move with the Congress over the induction of CPI chief Kanhaiya Kumar who’s noticed as a possible rival to Prasad’s son and inheritor obvious Tejashwi Yadav.

    Phrases of the 24 seats had expired in July remaining 12 months however the elections had been behind schedule since recent panchayats and concrete native our bodies may no longer be elected inside of time as a result of the COVID pandemic.

    Part of the 2 dozen poll-bound seats were received via the BJP remaining time.

    Its alliance spouse, Leader Minister Nitish Kumar’s JD(U), had 8.

    The RJD held two whilst some other seat was once received via an impartial candidate.

    The NDA has its personal proportion of issues of smaller allies Vikassheel Insaan Celebration, headed via minister Mukesh Sahni and Hindustani Awam Morcha of former CM Jitan Ram Manjhi expressing resentment over being omitted.

    The NDA is but to announce its applicants, even though it has pop out with a components of seat-sharing during which the BJP might be contesting 13 seats whilst the JD(U) will struggle the rest 11.

  • Lalu Prasad’s well being situation severe however solid: RIMS

    He was once sentenced to 5 years' jail time period and slapped with a advantageous of Rs 60 lakh right through the day in reference to the embezzlement of Rs 139 crore from Doranda treasury within the fodder rip-off.

  • Fodder rip-off case: CBI court docket sentences RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav to 5 years in jail

    Via PTI

    RANCHI: A distinct CBI court docket on Monday sentenced RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav to 5 years in jail and slapped a nice of Rs 60 lakh on him in reference to the Rs 139 crore Doranda treasury embezzlement case of the fodder rip-off.

    The court docket pronounced the sentence after nearly listening to arguments at the quantum of sentence.

    After his conviction within the case on February 15, the in poor health 73-year outdated former Bihar leader minister was once lodged within the Birsa Munda Central Prison after which shifted to state-run Rajendra Institute of Scientific Sciences (RIMS) in Ranchi.

  • Lalu Prasad Yadav reaches Ranchi to seem ahead of CBI court docket in fodder rip-off case

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    RANCHI: RJD Leader Lalu Prasad Yadav has reached Ranchi on Sunday to seem bodily ahead of a Particular CBI in a case associated with a fodder rip-off case RC 47A/96 47A/96 associated with unlawful withdrawal of Rs 139.35 crore from Doranda Treasury. CBI Court docket is to pronounce ultimate judgment within the case in opposition to RJD Leader and 98 others on February 15.

    Lalu Yadav has already been convicted in 4 different fodder rip-off circumstances and is recently on bail in all of the 4 circumstances. The entire accused individuals, together with Lalu Yadav, had been ordered to seem bodily ahead of the court docket of Particular CBI Pass judgement on SK Shashi at the day of ultimate judgment. Yadav reached two days ahead of to the listening to.

    It’s believed that that RJD would strengthening the birthday party in Jharkhand and will probably be assembly the birthday party leaders and staff giving them important directions all the way through the 2 days of his keep in Ranchi.

    Once you have convicted in 4 different fodder rip-off circumstances, the RJD Leader has secured bail in Deoghar Treasury (RC 64A/96), Chaibasa Treasury (RC 68A/96), every other Chaibasa Treasury (RC20A/96), and Dumka Treasury (RC38A/96) circumstances.