‘PM Narendra Modi put my father in jail’

RANCHI: RJD working president and former Bihar deputy chief minister Tejashwi Yadav on Friday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar of implicating his family members, including his father and party supremo Lalu Prasad, in false cases.


Addressing an election rally at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Chatra, Tejashwi said, “PM Modi and CM Nitish have conspired to get false cases lodged against my entire family members. Morever, BJP and RSS put my father in jail after implicating him.”

The former deputy chief minister was in Chatra to accompany RJD candidate Subhash Yadav in filing his nomination paper for the

Lok Sabha

seat. Targeting BJP and RSS in his speech, Tejashwi further said RJD is ready to make any sacrifice for protection of the Constitution and the reservation policy in the country. He claimed that the country is passing through a phase of communal tension apart from high rate of unemployment among the youths. Tejashwi said these issues will be raised during RJD’s campaigns for the Lok Sabha polls.

During filing of his nomination, Yadav was accompanied by senior RJD leaders including the party’s state president Gautam Sagar Rana, national spokesperson Bhai Birendra, MLA Bhola Yadav and other office bearers. Yadav’s rising stature in the party caused dissension in RJD’s state unit but he has the blessing party supremo Lalu Prasad.

Meanwhile, nine candidates have filed nominations for the fourth phase of election in Jharkhand in three constituencies scheduled for April 29.

The election office on Friday informed that so far, nine candidates have filed their nomination papers for Chatra, Lohardaga and Palamu parliamentary seats.

Three candidates, namely Shravan Kumar Panna of Bahujan Samaj Party, and independents Ekus Dhan and Anand Pal Tirkey submitted their papers for the Lohardaga parliamentary seat on Friday. So far, four candidates have filed their nomination from the constituency while 11 nomination papers have been sold.

Further, two candidates submitted their papers in Palamu on Friday even as 19 nomination papers have been purchased for the seat so far. Altogether 52 nomination papers have been sold for the three constituencies so far. The nomination process will close on April 9.