Former Bihar deputy CM Sushil Kumar Modi accused RJD chief Lalu Prasad of trying to lure NDA legislators through phone calls from Ranchi where he is serving his jail terms in the fodder scam cases.
The former deputy CM said on Twitter that Lalu was making calls from a phone number “to NDA MLAs & promising ministerial berths. When I telephoned, Lalu directly picked up. I said don’t do these dirty tricks from jail, you will not succeed.”
लालू यादव ने दिखाई अपनी असलियत
लालू प्रसाद यादव द्वारा NDA के विधायक को बिहार विधान सभा अध्यक्ष के लिए होने वाले चुनाव में महागठबंधन के पक्ष में मतदान करने हेतु प्रलोभन देते हुए। pic.twitter.com/LS9968q7pl
— Sushil Kumar Modi (@SushilModi) November 25, 2020
The phone number that he mentioned in the tweet belongs to Lalu’s caretaker Irfan Ansari. Irfan has been allowed access to the former Bihar CM at Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (Rims) campus, where the latter is serving his jail term.
Soon after Sushil’s tweet, BJP’s Jharkhand president Deepak Prakash also tweeted: “Why has the honourable (Jharkhand) CM Hemant Soren kept his eyes shut on this matter?”
All parivar CMs are corrupt to the core, Hemanth Soren is colluding with convict Lalu. Under the prison manual, Lalu is not allowed to use cellphone for communication and is supposed to meet visitors only once a week.
Officials of Ranchi’s Birsa Munda Central Jail were not available for comments. JD(U) MLC in Bihar Neeraj Kumar demanded that Lalu be shifted to Hotwar jail to prevent any misdoings.
RJD functionaries, however, rubbished SuMo’s allegations. “SuMo suffers from Lalu-phobia. Rather than diverting people’s attention from real issues, including unemployment and Covid management, NDA leaders are busy making baseless allegations,” RJD spokesperson Mrityunjay Tiwari said.
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