New Delhi: Rubbishing the Enforcement Directorate’s declare that “proceeds of crime amounting to Rs 600 crore” have been seized in raids final week, Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav on Monday (March 13, 2023) mentioned that his sisters and their in-laws have been made to take off the jewelery they have been carrying and proven as restoration. The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief additionally alleged that ED officers left his Delhi home solely after getting a “nod from above”.
“Thenga mila hai”, Tejashwi used the Hindi slang to repudiate the ED’s declare of giant restoration within the raids performed in reference to the land for jobs rip-off pertaining to his septuagenarian father Lalu Prasad’s tenure as Railway Minister through the UPA-1 authorities.
“Raids were also conducted on homes of my sisters who are not in politics and who got married after my father had ceased to be the Railway Minister. My sisters and their in-laws were made to take off the jewelery they were wearing. Photographs of the used ornaments were taken to buttress the ED’s claim of having recovered a khazana (treasure),” he instructed reporters.
His response got here after a CBI crew grilled his mom and former Bihar Chief Minister Rabri Devi at her residence in Patna every week in the past and later questioned his father Lalu Prasad, who’s at the moment recovering from a kidney transplant, in Delhi for a number of hours in reference to land for jobs rip-off.
Last week, the ED additionally carried out raids on the home of Prasad, the place Tejashwi Yadav, the RJD supremo’s youthful son, was additionally current.Â
Several different premises of Prasad’s daughters and shut aides have been additionally raided in numerous elements of the nation and the company claimed to have seized proceeds of crime amounting to Rs 600 crore.
Searches resulted within the detection of Proceeds of Crime amounting to Rs 600 Crore roughly at this cut-off date: ED
— ANI (@ANI) March 11, 2023
Meanwhile, Tejashwi squarely blamed the ruling BJP on the Center for the travails his household needed to endure and mentioned, “Union Home Minister Amit Shah is very fond of explaining chronology of events. People can take note of the chronology of the central agency’s action against me and my family.”
“It started in 2017 during my first stint in power when these agencies spoke of Rs 8,000 crore”, he mentioned referring to the land for resorts rip-off, including “nothing came of that case. After we were back in power, raids were conducted on leaders of our party on the very day we proved our majority on the floor of the assembly”.
#WATCH | In 2017 in the identical type they did this…persons are saying, a whole lot of wealth has been recovered from me, ‘thenga mila hai’ I can problem them…They first use to say Benami, why do not they are saying it now?…: Bihar Dy CM Tejaswi Yadav pic.twitter.com/DaTB4tJEOR
— ANI (@ANI) March 13, 2023
He claimed “the Mahagathbandhan rally in Purnea last month which attracted huge crowds, in contrast with Shah’s lackluster public meeting elsewhere in the state on the same day, has enervated the BJP. They seem to have lost the courage to take on Tejashwi Yadav politically.”
“But we are not students of entire political science… We have the guts and the moral strength (jigar aur zameer) to take on the BJP,” Tejashwi Yadav mentioned and reiterated that central companies like CBI, ED, and Income Tax Department have been performing as per the “script” of the ruling get together.
“Be it Shah or anyone else, the director of the farce must now change… The agencies have come to cut a sorry figure. They roar for a few days and thereafter mew like a cat”, the Bihar Deputy CM mentioned in an try at acerbic humor paying homage to his legendary father.
“The raid at my house was over in 30 minutes. We thereafter served tea to the ED officials and inquired why they were not leaving. My wife needs care and is suffering from high blood pressure. They said they would leave only after they got a call from above. Clearly, the intent was to carry out propaganda (war) against me”, Yadav alleged.
“In their politics of defaming opponents, the BJP seems to have made an Adani out of me”, he quipped, including “they already stand exposed in the matter relating to their allegations attacks on migrants in Tamil Nadu. I wonder if they have the moral strength to own up their mistake and apologize”.
Recalling an incident through the 2015 meeting elections in Bihar, he mentioned “huge amount of unaccounted cash was recovered from the house of Union minister Giriraj Singh. No agency has ever probed the matter. Ditto for the recovery of Rs eight crore recently from a BJP leader in Karnataka”.
