Lalu took plots for ministerial berths: Sushil Kumar Modi
Modi claims there are around 40 politicians who have "gifted" land to Lalu family in exchange of tickets for contesting assembly or parliamentary elections.
The 'exposé' duel between senior BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi and Bihar's ruling RJD's first family has gone a notch above benami properties with Modi accusing RJD president Lalu Prasad of "receiving" land from two former Union ministers in lieu of their ministerial berths in the Congress-led UPA regime.
According to Modi's latest, in the string of allegations made against the Yadav clan's 'benami deals' since April 4, "ex-Union minister Kanti Singh leased 95 decimal prime land with three rooms and a bathroom in Patna to former CM Rabri Devi for 99 years, at a monthly rental of mere Rs 1,250 in 2006, in lieu of becoming a minister in UPA-I," said Modi, while flashing the lease papers at a presser at BJP headquarters in Patna on Thursday.
He continued, "Another ex-Union minister, who has transferred land to Lalu family is Raghunath Jha, who "gifted" six kattah land with a three-storeyed palatial building to Lalu's sons Tejashwi Yadav and Tej Pratap Yadav in Gopalganj district in 2005 and few months later, he was made a junior minister in UPA-I."
Modi claims there are around 40 politicians who have "gifted" land to Lalu family in exchange of tickets for contesting assembly or parliamentary elections.