BJP demands sacking of Tejaswi and Tej Pratap from Cabinet

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Patna : Bihar BJP chief Nityanand Rai, MP, on July 7, 2017, said that the politics in the state will change after CBI raids on RJD chief Lalu Prasad’s Patna residence. Rai said it is high time for Bihar CM Nitish Kumar to end the JD(U)’s alliance with the RJD and sack his two sons: Deputy CM Tejaswi Yadav and Health and Environment and Forest Minister Tej Pratap Yadav, from his cabinet without delay. The CBI sleuths also quizzed some members of Lalu’s members. The CBI carried out search operation at 12 locations including Delhi, Patna, Ranchi, Puri and Gurugram.

“BJP demands immediate dismissal of Deputy CM Tejaswi Yadav and his brother and minister Tej Pratap Yadav from the state cabinet,” said senior BJP leader and former Bihar Deputy CM Sushil Kumar Modi. The then JD(U) president Sharad Yadav and present Water Resources Minister Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lallan Singh had submitted a memorandum containing 600 pages of documents to the then PM Manmohan Singh seeking action against Lalu for the alleged land deals as a railway minister, Modi claimed.

The Central Bureau of Investigation has registered a case u/s 120 B r/w 420 of IPC and Section 13(2) r/w 13(1)(d) of PC Act, 1988, against the then Railway Minister Lalu Prasad, his wife and former Bihar CM Rabri Devi, their younger son and Deputy CM Tejswi Yadav, a private person based in New Delhi, two Directors of a private Hotel Ltd. Company, a private Projects/Marketing company based in Delhi, the then MD, IRCTC, and unknown others on the allegations of awarding the tender for development, maintenance and operation of BNR Hotels at Ranchi and Puri to said private Hotel Ltd. Company in 2006.

This case has been registered consequent to a Preliminary Enquiry which prima facie revealed that then Railway Minister Lalu Prasad had allegedly derived undue advantage by abuse of his official position and by way of sale of about 3 acres of land at Patna by the owners of said private Hotel Ltd Company to another private marketing company having said private person ( wife of his close associate), as its Director, at a price which was less than the prevalent circle rate.  It was also alleged that this favour was returned to the company by award of long term lease for the BNR hotels at Ranchi and Puri by manipulating the tender process, according to CBI sources.

It was further alleged that as per available records, the entire shareholding of said private marketing company was transferred to wife of then Railway Minister and his son between 2010-14, for a consideration of approx Rs.64 lakh, when this company owned land worth around Rs.32.5 crore( as per circle rate) and around Rs.94 crore (as per the market rate).

Meanwhile, Bihar CM Nitish Kumar on July 7, 2017, held high level discussion with Chief Secretary, DGP and Home Secretary at Rajgir in Nalanda district. Lalu, who was at Ranchi to appear before a CBI court in a fodder scam case when the CBI sleuths conducted raid at his Patna residence besides quizzing his kin, returned to Patna in the evening the same day. The RJD workers misbehaved with some mediapersons when the CBI officials were coming out of Lalu’s residence.