Ridiculing former Bihar Chief Minister lalu Prasad Yadav, his daughter who is a Rajya Sabha member, and two sons, both Ministers in the State Government, for resorting to “Vadra-model of development”, the BJP on Friday accused them of being involved in corrupt land deals worth over Rs 1,000 crore, and asked the Central Government to probe one such transaction in Delhi.
The BJP asked the Nitish-led State Government to act under Special court Act and confiscate properties of his Deputy-Chief Minister and Minister (Tejashwi Yadav and Tej Pratap Yadav) in the State Government.
Addressing a press conference here Senior BJP leader and Union law Minister Ravishankar Prasad questioned Bharti for “hiding” her property details from the Election Commission (EC) while contesting for the Rajya Sabha seat. Bharti is currently a member of Rajya Sabha. Prasad asked the EC to act against lalu’s daughter. “It is a serious case of misrepresentation and has very grave implications”, the Minister said.
He accused Bharti and his husband of running front companies and engaging in land deals by first purchasing them for a song with an implicit quid pro quo and then selling them at a high price.
One such land deal involving lalu Prasad and his family members is in Bijwasan in Delhi, he said. “We expect the Central Government to take appropriate action,” he added.
All the companies owned by lalu Prasad’s family members for the purpose of these land transactions had no employees, no business activities and no turnover, Prasad claimed adding though they all had ‘very high sounding names’.
This was “Vadra model of development”, he said, referring to dubious land deals allegedly involving Congress chief Sonia’s son-in-law Robert Vadra.
Prasad alleged that these transactions date back to the period when lalu Prasad was the railway Minister, and dared Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar to take action against him.
He said lalu’s official residence here was the address of the owners of the firms allegedly floated by his family members.
Several suspect land deals took place in Bihar, he said, wondering if Kumar would invoke a special law enacted by his Government in which assets acquired through illicit money are confiscated in this instance.
“The politics of lalu Prasad has become politics of loot. land worth crores of rupees was grabbed for a pittance,” he said.