Rabri owns 18 flats in Patna: BJP

‘She got land from 3 people whose kin benefited when Lalu was Railway Minister’

June 20, 2017 09:10 pm | Updated 10:09 pm IST - PATNA

Rabri Devi. File picture

Rabri Devi. File picture

While the Income-Tax Department attached 12 plots of RJD chief Lalu Prasad’s family members, Bihar BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi on Tuesday made fresh allegations against them and said Rabri Devi, wife of Mr. Lalu Prasad, owned 18 flats in Patna.

The younger son of Mr. Lalu Prasad and Deputy Chief Minister, Tejaswi Yadav, said the charges stemmed from “politics of vendetta”.

“The former Bihar Chief Minister Rabri Devi owns 18 flats in Patna, with 18 parking spaces... Ms. Rabri Devi got two plots of land in different localities of Patna while she was the Chief Minister and Lalu Prasad was the Railway Minister,” Mr. Modi said.

“Ms. Rabri Devi got land from three people whose family members benefited when Mr. Lalu Prasad was the Railway Minister,” he said.

Tejaswi refutes charges

Reacting to the fresh allegations, Mr. Tejaswi Yadav said: “It was all nothing but politics of vendetta. I’m the Deputy CM and I’m very much here…When the authorities ask us, we’ll appear before them… But this is politics of vendetta, and to divert the attention of people from the development taking place in Bihar.”

Mr. Lalu Prasad said that he was not “scared at all with all this and continue to fight against the fascist forces”.

Mr. Modi said that since Chief Minister Nitish Kumar was not taking any action, he would soon submit all papers on the dubious land deals and illegal properties to the authorities concerned.

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