BJP dares Tejashwi to move court against CBI’s action

Patna: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) that is in ruling alliance with Janata Dal (United) in Bihar, on Saturday challenged RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav to move a court "with evidence" if he felt that the CBI was acting wrongfully against his parents Lalu Prasad and Rabri Devi.

A day after his parents' residences in Delhi and Patna were raided by the central agency in connection with a fresh corruption case, the party also sought to remind Yadav that legal woes of Prasad had begun during the rule of a "friendly" Congress-led UPA at the Centre.

Yadav, who is the leader of the opposition in the state assembly, is away in London. Hearing about the fresh wrangle his parents have landed in, he has vented spleen on Twitter. "Ay Hawa, jaakar tum Kah do dilli ke darbaron se, nahin Dara hai nahin darega Lalu in sarkaaron se" (go and tell the courtiers of Delhi, o winds. Lalu has not been and will never be scared of the powers that be", the former Bihar deputy CM said on the microblogging site.

Although Yadav did not name any party, for the BJP he seemed to have touched a raw nerve.

"We understand that Lalu ji is old and ailing and wish him an early recovery but Tejashwi should remember his father's woes began when a friendly UPA was in power," said BJP spokesman and national general secretary of its OBC Morcha Nikhil Anand in a statement. (With PTI inputs)