Case Against Lalu Yadav “Pure Vendetta”: Ally Nitish Kumar’s Party

The Central Bureau of Investigation, or CBI, reopened its probe towards Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad Yadav and his own circle of relatives withinside the alleged land-for-jobs rip-off after stress from their political masters withinside the BJP, Janata Dal (United) has said. “Case towards Lalu Yadav is natural vendetta. The CBI had closed the case two times because of loss of evidence. Now, after Nitish Kumar joined palms with the RJD, the case has now been opened again. How did the CBI abruptly get a witness,” Janata Dal (United) president Rajiv Ranjan Singh, higher referred to as Lalan Singh, advised NDTV.

The CBI, he said, turned into being compelled to report instances towards competition leaders because the BJP is fearful of them. “The cutting-edge authorities is the use of important groups to goal the competition. They had been concentrated on their political fighters now no longer simply in Bihar, however in different states also,” he said. Incidentally, the CBI`s case towards the RJD chief withinside the land-for-jobs rip-off is primarily based totally on a grievance filed via way of means of Lalan Singh in 2008.

A day after thinking former Bihar Chief Minister Rabri Devi at her domestic in Patna, the probe company on Tuesday puzzled former union railway minister Lalu Prasad Yadav withinside the equal case. The probe company’s group puzzled him for 5 hours. The CBI case is primarily based totally on accusations that Mr Yadav and his own circle of relatives participants sold land at reasonably-priced charges in change for jobs throughout his tenure as Union Railway Minister from 2004 to 2009.

Besides the Yadav couple and their daughters Misa and Hema, the FIR, registered in May 2022, names 12 individuals who allegedly were given jobs in change for land. In July ultimate year, Mr Yadav’s aide and previous Officer on Special Duty (OSD) Bhola Yadav turned into arrested via way of means of the CBI withinside the case. Eight Opposition events had written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, alleging misuse of important groups for the BJP’s political motives. Among the signatories turned into Rabri Devi’s son and Bihar’s Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav.