Sushil Modi lashes out at RJD over ruckus in assembly

Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi today lashed out at the opposition RJD for disrupting assembly proceedings over a newspaper report claiming that the CBI's legal wing had found "no evidence" against Lalu Prasad in land for hotels scam.

The senior BJP leader, who has been coming up with documents suggesting the involvement of the RJD supremo and his family in benami land deals,also asked the leader of opposition in state assembly Tejashwi Yadav to explain how he came to own a three-acre plot on which a mall was being illegally built here at an estimated cost of Rs 750 crore.

Situated on the outskirts of the capital city, the land plot was seized by the Enforcement Directorate in December last year.

"The RJD is presenting the newspaper report in a distorted fashion. The issue of irregularities in grant of lease for railway hotels at Patna and Puri had been raised by a number of MPs before the then Prime Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in 2008, when Prasd was the Railway Minister", Sushil Modi said here in a statement.

"The CBI lodged its FIR in the land for hotels scam only in 2017 after it found documentary evidence provided by us to be valid. The RJD is trying to hide the corruption of Lalu family by creating a ruckus in the assembly. If the party feels that its leader is being falsely implicated, it should move the court", the Deputy CM said.