RJD supremo lalu Prasad and his son and leader of Opposition in Bihar Assembly Tejashwi Prasad Yadav on Tuesday hurled serious allegations on Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and accused him of breaking the Mahagathbandhan under tremendous pressure of the BJP.
“He had only two options; either to break the alliance and join NDA or go to jail in the multi crore Srijan scandal. Nitish is deep involved in this scam because the loot of the public money was held with his full knowledge,” said Tejashwi, who escaped the CBI questioning in New Delhi and held a press conference to level allegations against the CM. CBI had summoned him on September 12 and his father on September 11 for questioning but both did not go pleading political pre occupation.
lalu and his sons had held a meeting in Bhagalpur on Sunday to “expose the real culprits of the Sirjan scam” but Nitish termed their meeting as “nukkar natak” saying it might prove suicidal for them. The father son duo said they were not scared of such threats and alleged that when Nitish realized in the last fortnight of July that he could be caught for this scam he started rushing to Delhi and made a deal with the BJP under which he broke away of the alliance else he would have ended in jail.
Calling Nitish “Bhishma Pitamah of corruption”, the former Deputy CM said everything happening in the NGO Srijan was in the knowledge of CM and his Deputy Sushil Kumar Modi. He also cited the report of CAG of 2008 which mentioned this scandal and recommended for recovery of entire amount transferred in the bank accounts of Srijan. He also claimed that the Bhagalpur DM in 2006 had also ordered for closure of transfer of funds to the NGO still the practice continued till July 2017.
lalu said, “When cheques started bouncing between July 10 and 29, 2017, Nitish find it difficult to escape and then he made a deal with the BJP to break alliance because he was certain to go to jail. Why Nitish is not putting all facts in public domain which he had been asking Tejashwi to doIJ” The RJD chief also alleged that all the allegations leveled on his family by Sushil Modi were in fact sponsored by Nitish.
“Nitish is giving us lesson of morality as if he is our headmaster. I have studied political science and he engineering. I know the political nuances and he is doing only engineering. He is accusing us of abusive language but ordering his spokesmen to abuse us. We will continue exposing him,” said lalu and Tejashwi added that all documents related to the scam would be handed over to the CBI. But he added that CBI was under pressure of the Centre as a result most of the culprits of the scam were given opportunity to escape and some were murdered.