Lalu Prasad Yadav, the leader of the RJD, departed the Patna ED office on Monday after being questioned for many hours about the land-for-jobs case. In the midst of a sizable contingent of supporters outside the ED headquarters, security personnel took the former chief minister of Bihar to his vehicle.
Around 11:05 a.m., Lalu Prasad Yadav arrived to the ED headquarters with his daughter Misa Bharti by his side.
Bharti told reporters, “Whenever any agency calls our family members for questioning…, we go there, cooperate with them and answer all their queries. Because of his health condition, it is difficult for him (Prasad) to move on his own. Someone has to accompany him whenever he goes somewhere.”
A day after Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar broke with the “Mahagathbandhan,” which counts the RJD as a significant part, and sided with the BJP to establish a new administration in the state, the RJD supremo made an appearance before the central agency.
The Singapore-based daughter of Lalu Yadav, Rohini Acharya, has expressed disapproval of the ED’s handling of her father, accusing them of cruel conduct by denying him an aide.
She took to social media to express her dismay, “Everyone knows about the health condition of my father…he can’t even walk without support. Despite that ED officials did not allow any assistant to enter their office and accompany him. It’s inhuman behaviour by ED officials…shame on you (ED officials) and your boss (top ED officials),” Acharya wrote on X in Hindi.
“If anything happens to my father, no one will be worse than me. If something happens to my father today, Chameleon (aimed at Nitish Kumar) along with CBI and ED will be held responsible. The lion (Lalu) is alone and not weak,” she said.
On January 29 and 30, respectively, Lalu Prasad and his son Tejashwi Yadav were summoned to appear before the ED officers.
