AMN / PATNA
Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav was questioned by the Enforcement Directorate at the agency’s Patna office on Monday in the land-for-jobs case for nearly 10 hours. The 75-year-old leader reached the central agency’s office at around 11 am.
Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) supremo appeared before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for questioning in connection with the land-for-jobs case.
Yadav arrived at the ED office in Patna at around 11 am in the morning and allowed to leave at around 9 am after a marathon 10-hour interrogation.
His daughter Misa Bharti, who accompanied him to ED office, said, “Whenever any agency calls our family members for questioning…, we go there, cooperate with them and answer all their queries. Because of his health condition, it is difficult for him (Prasad) to move on his own. Someone has to accompany him whenever he goes somewhere.”
On Tuesday, his son and former Bihar deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav will be questioned by the ED in the case.
The ED questioning of Yadav took place a day after Nitish Kumar broke up his alliance with the earlier party RJD and formed a new government with support form the BJP.
Meanwhile, Lalu Yadav’s Singapore-based daughter Rohini Acharya has slammed the Enforcement Directorate for the “inhumane” treatment of her ailing father after he was allegedly not allowed to be accompanied by any assistant.
“Everyone knows about the health condition of my father…he can’t even walk without support. Despite that ED officials did not allow any assistant to enter their office and accompany him. It’s inhuman behaviour by ED officials…shame on you (ED officials) and your boss (top ED officials),” Acharya wrote on ‘X’ in Hindi.
“If anything happens to my father, no one will be worse than me. If something happens to my father today, Chameleon (aimed at Nitish Kumar) along with CBI and ED will be held responsible. The lion (Lalu) is alone and not weak,” she said.
“This is not an ED summon, but a BJP summon… This will go on till 2024. Till then please do not call it ED summons… Why should we be scared?,” RJD MP Manoj Jha said.
Countering the RJD, Samrat Choudhary, who was sworn in as the Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar on Sunday, alleged that the former Chief Minister was involved in corruption.
“The people of the country know that these (Lalu Yadav) are corrupt people.” Corruption is a jewel for them… I want to urge Tejashwi Yadav to tell the youth of Bihar the system of how to become millionaires within one and a half years,” he said.