The Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party leaders in Bihar on Friday attacked Lalu Prasad for violating the “jail manual and running the Congress party” in the State. The attack followed the comments made by Mr. Prasad on October 26, who had claimed that during his imprisonment at Ranchi Jail he had called up Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi and Ahmed Patel to make State Congress chief Akhilesh Prasad Singh an MP in Rajya Sabha, a post he continues to hold to date. Mr. Prasad was lodged in Hotwar jail in Ranchi after his convictions in several fodder scam cases; he later received bail after serving nearly half of his prison sentence.
The RJD, and the ruling coalition partner Janata Dal United (JDU), defended Mr. Prasad saying that his advancing age must be taken in to account for this “slip of tongue”.
“It is Lalu Prasad who is running the Congress in Bihar. They have no option but to piggyback on the RJD and Laluji will determine what the Congress has to do,” alleged state BJP president Samrat Choudhary.
