“FIR against me is political vendetta….conspiracy by BJP president Amit Shah and PM Modi said Tejashwi the son of Lalu Prasad Yadav. From day 1 they have tried to break our alliance. The alliance is strong and will not break.”
Tejashwi and his father Lalu Prasad are facing the charges in an alleged land for the hotels scam that saw the Central Bureau of Investigation raid his house last week.
Since then, pressure has mounted on the deputy chief minister to resign from the cabinet. His Rashtriya Janata Dal has backed Tejashwi but the chief minister Nitish Kumar is said to want Lalu’s younger son out to restore the government’s clean image.
They are bringing cases of 2004 against me… 2004 mein to humaare mooch bhi nahi aayi thi, 13-14 saal ka baccha kaise ye sab kar sakta hai? (In 2004, I did not even have a moustache. I was a 13-14-year-old at that time. How could a kid do all this?)” Yadav was quoted as saying by news agency.
At a party meeting Nitish gave RJD to counter the allegations and gave the example of ministers who had been asked to resign in the past over corruption charges. The cabinet meeting was the first time Tejashwi and Nitish came face to face since the corruption charges surfaced.
