On Tuesday, Rashtriya Janata Dal chief and former Bihar chief minister Lalu Prasad accompanied his son and current Deputy Chief Minister of the state Tejaswi Yadav to a meeting with Minister for Road Transport and Highways and Shipping Nitin Gadkari in New Delhi. It was a violation of protocol, the Bharatiya Janata Party pointed out immediately.
But that was not the first time that Yadav senior was seen standing in for or backing up a son on an official assignment. He had attended programmes on behalf of his health minister son Tej Pratap Yadav, made a surprise visit to the Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences and called up the Darbhanga civil surgeon to reinstate sacked health workers.
Not surprisingly, Tejaswi Yadav defended his father. "It was Gadkariji himself who had asked my father to meet him," he clarified.
But that was not the first time that Yadav senior was seen standing in for or backing up a son on an official assignment. He had attended programmes on behalf of his health minister son Tej Pratap Yadav, made a surprise visit to the Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences and called up the Darbhanga civil surgeon to reinstate sacked health workers.
Not surprisingly, Tejaswi Yadav defended his father. "It was Gadkariji himself who had asked my father to meet him," he clarified.
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