Tej Pratap Yadav, former health minister of Bihar and elder son of RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav has threatened to beat up Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Modi.
In a video that has emerged, Tej Pratap is seen threatening to beat Sushil Modi during his son’s wedding at the latter’s residence. Issuing a threat to the Bihar deputy CM, Tej Pratap said amid cheers from his supporters, “We are not scared and our fight will go on, will enter his house and beat him up. If I go to his son’s marriage I will expose him.”
Responding to his threat, Sushil Modi said, “He is frustrated and threatening to disturb my son’s wedding. Why is he bringing politics into this? I had respectfully attended weddings of Lalu ji’s children. Lalu ji must talk to him.”
Earlier on Tuesday, a day after Bihar BJP unit chief Nityanand Rai spoke of “breaking fingers and cutting hands raised in opposition to PM Narendra Modi”, former state chief minister and RJD leader Rabri Devi dared the ruling party to do so.
Rabri also spoke on the case against her. Pointing out that neither she or any member of her family members would respond to calls from CBI or ED, she said that probing agencies must visit her residence if they want to interrogate her in the land-for-hotel case.
On his part, Bihar’s former Deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav said that his father and RJD chief Lalu Prasad is the only leader who can keep the Opposition united. Whenever there was an attempt to suppress Lalu, he has always emerged stronger.
In the meantime, Nityanand Rai apologised saying that “wrong meaning” was derived from his statement, he tweeted, “Whatever I said at the function was by way of using proverbs. Still if some people are offended by my remarks, I apologise”.
Earlier,Former Bihar chief minister Rabri Devi has claimed that many people in Bihar are ready to ‘slit PM Narendra Modi’s throat and chop off his hand’.
They say fingers of those accusing Narendra Modi will be chopped off. Do so and no one in the country will stay quiet. Will the people of Bihar not say anything? There are many people here who are ready to slit PM Modi’s throat and chop off his hand,” she said.
She added that for this, they can send people to jail. “People of Bihar will go to jail together,” she said at a public meeting on Tuesday.
Her remark comes days after Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Bihar president and MP Nityanand Rai said: “all fingers and hands raised against the prime minister should be broken or chopped off.”
However, he later apologised for the controversial comments saying he only used a colloquial expression in Hindi. He also said he regretted hurting people’s sentiments.
Speaking at the same event, Rabri said she could not be “cowed down” by the central investigating agencies whose “character” she knew well. The former CM has skipped appearance before Enforcement Directorate despite numerous summons in cases related to benami property.
“Be it ED, CBI or IT (income tax) I know their tiriya charittar (character). What wrong have we done. The Centre should give an answer and so should the state government”, she said while addressing the Rashtriya Janata Dal’s national council here.
“Let them send any number of notices. I am not going to get afraid. If they are so eager to interrogate me, then they should come to Patna and question me”, she added.
