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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) connected Monday (October 13, 2025) launched a scathing onslaught connected Rashtriya Janata Dal supremo and erstwhile Railway Minister Lalu Prasad, his woman Rabri Devi, and their lad Tejashwi Yadav, aft a Delhi tribunal framed charges against them successful the IRCTC scam case.
At a property conference, elder BJP person and erstwhile Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad urged the radical of Bihar “never to beryllium taken successful by Tejashwi Yadav’s promises, due to the fact that jobs volition not beryllium provided and your onshore volition beryllium taken”. “Mr. Tejashwi — who successful the run-up to the State Assembly polls has promised to alteration Bihar — had himself been accused of fraud. When idiosyncratic has specified a estimation and specified charges, however tin helium alteration Bihar?” helium asked.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has alleged that Mr. Lalu Prasad, during his tenure arsenic Railway Minister, extended favour to edifice owners by leasing 2 railway hotels. In lieu of the alleged favour, a premier onshore successful Patna was sold to a institution controlled by his adjacent associate. The company, on with the land, was aboriginal taken implicit by his household astatine a throwaway price, the Central bureau claimed.
‘Massive plunder’
Stating that Mr. Lalu Prasad and his household members were facing allegations successful aggregate cases, the BJP person said the CBI chargesheet exposed their “massive plunder”.
“If Lalu Prasad’s full tenure were to beryllium summarised successful 3 sentences, they would be: consuming fodder, drinking coal-tar, and manipulating authorities spot and tenders to drawback land. A 4th exemplary should besides beryllium included: “Jameen Do, Naukri Lo (Give Land, Take Job)...the astir striking diagnostic of this exemplary has been that each its benefits were confined solely to the family, with nary 1 extracurricular receiving anything,” helium said.
The BJP person said astir victims of the ‘Give Land, Take Job’ strategy were the mediocre whose onshore parcels were taken successful speech for jobs. “This is the alleged societal justness of the Congress and the RJD, wherever the rights of the mediocre were violated, and corruption and nepotism were promoted successful their name,” helium said.
Mr. Ravi Shankar Prasad said the RJD supremo had already been convicted successful the “fodder scam” and the proceedings successful 1 “coal-tar scam” was ongoing. Citing Mr. Tejashwi’s affidavit from the 2020 State Assembly polls, helium alleged that betwixt 1993 and 2007 helium possessed 9 cultivation lands... Where did these 9 plots travel from?... Tejashwi Yadav was calved successful 1990,” helium said.
Alleging that Ms. Rabri Devi owned 3 cultivation plots and 4 non-agricultural plots, 1 commercialized property, and 5 residential properties, helium besides asked astir her sources of income.
