Former Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi, a BJP leader on whose plea the Patna High Court ordered a CBI probe into the fodder scam, on Monday dismissed the allegations of political vendetta leveled against his party by supporters of RJD president Lalu Prasad. rejected. Modi, who is now a Rajya Sabha member, came out with a video of himself reacting to the Ranchi CBI court order that sentenced Prasad to five years in prison and fined him Rs 60 lakh.
The BJP leader pointed out that the first chargesheet against Prasad was filed during the premiership of HD Deve Gowda, whose United Front government depended on Prasad for its survival. He also recalled that Prasad was first convicted during the tenure of Manmohan Singh, when the Congress-led UPA was in power with the unshakable support of the RJD.
The BJP leader, who has been in the news for his “revelations” against Prasad and his family, also bolstered former boss Nitish Kumar’s argument that many of those who accused Prasad of corruption were now his close aides. “Apart from me, those who had filed PILs against Lalu ji included Shivanand Tiwari, Vrishan Patel and Prem Chandra Mishra,” Modi said.
Tiwari is currently the national vice-president of the RJD and his son is enjoying a second term as the party MLA. Vrishan Patel is a party-hopper who is currently the state vice-president of RJD.
Prem Chandra Mishra is MLC of Congress. Modi, who has known Prasad closely since the 1970s, said, “It pains me to see Lalu ji going to jail at this ripe age. But this is not the first time. He has been convicted in four fodder scam cases in the past as well. is gone.” When he held top positions in Patna University Students Union.
“The time has come for Lalu ji’s well-wishers to stop crying that he has been framed. It is a court order and the judges are not appointed by the BJP,” Modi said.
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