Bihar Dy CM Sushil K Modi lashes out at Lalu

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Patna : Senior BJP leader and Bihar Deputy CM Sushil Kumar Modi ( SuMo) on December 24, 2017, lashed out at former Bihar CM Lalu Prasad and his supporters for alleging that the RJD boss was being targeted as he belongs to a backward caste.

A special CBI court in Ranchi had on December 23, 2017, convicted Lalu and 15 others in a fodder scam case involving fraudulent drawwal of Rs 89.27 lakh from Deoghar Treasury in Jharkhand during 1991-94, 21 years after it had surfaced, while acquitting six others including former Bihar CM Jagannath Mishra, former Minister Vidya Sagar Nishad and former MLA Dhrub Bhagat.

” Lalu Prasad has gone to jail for corruption for the seventh time. Yet, he is comparing himself to leaders like Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King,” Modi tweeted. He was hinting at a tweet by the RJD chief shortly after his conviction on December 23 wherein he had said, “Had people like Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King, Baba Saheb Ambedkar failed in their efforts, history would have treated them as villains. They still are villains for the biased, racist and casteist minds. No one should expect any different treatment.”

SuMo, who was one of the petitioners, on whose PIL the Patna High Court had in 1996 ordered a CBI inquiry into the fodder scam cases, tweeted, “Wonder what type of leadership is provided by people who brazenly indulge in self-praise and amass illegal wealth.”

In another tweet, SuMo said, “Among the 16 persons convicted, eight belong to the upper castes.”

SuMo said, “A socialist leader, who gave up his vow of retirement to support the politics of benami property, now feels that he had committed a sin 21 years ago by associating himself with the PIL against Lalu Prasad.” He  was apparently referring to RJD vice-president Shivanand Tiwary, who was a co-petitioner in the PIL filed in the high court. He joined the RJD a few months back.