All Entries Tagged With: "Lalu Prasad"
Lalu welcomes six-phase poll in Bihar
Sep 06(PTI): Welcoming the six-phase Bihar Assembly polls schedule announced by the Election Commission today, RJD chief Lalu Prasad said it would ensure better turnout of voters. “Luckily, the dates for the elections are spread over festivals in Bihar and most of the voters will be available. I think it will help increase voters’ turnout [...]
Lalu, others appear in CBI Court
Sep 06(PTI): RJD chief Lalu Prasad, former Bihar Chief Minister Jagannath Mishra today appeared in the court of designated CBI judge Vimal Kumar Jain following summons in connection with a multi-crore rupees fodder scam case. Accompanied by his counsel, Chitranjan Sinha, Mr. Prasad reached the court this morning and listed his personal appearance. Justice Jain [...]
Naxals give 3rd deadline to free cops in Bihar
Patna, Sep 02(One India): A ray of hope has come to the Bihar government and more specially to families of the abducted cops who were given twice deadline for the release by the Maoists. Sources told to CNN-IBN that local discussions have initiated with the Maoists and the 3rd deadline for the safe release of [...]
Congress, BJP policies fomenting naxalism: Gowda
Sep 02(The Hindu): The former prime minister, H.D. Deve Gowda, on Wednesday blamed the socio-economic policies of the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party for fomenting naxalism in the country. “Who is a naxal? The deprived and the downtrodden man of our country who is driven to the extremes by the denial of basic human [...]
RJD threatens to file defamation case against Bihar deputy CM
Aug 31(PTI): Rashtriya Janata Dal(RJD) today threatned to file a defamation case against Bihar deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi for launching a ‘vilification campaign’ against its president Lalu Prasad to gain political mileage. RJD spokespersons, Shakeel Ahmed Khan and Ramkirpal Yadav, claimed that the slogan attributed by Modi to Prasad towipe out ‘Bhura Bal’ [...]
No upper caste leader can become Bihar CM: Lalu
Patna, Aug 29(PTI): Claiming to have been the catalyst for social justice in Bihar, RJD president Lalu Prasad today said no leader from forward communities could dream of becoming the chief minister of the state. At the same time added that he stood for the welfare of all communities and had even proposed 10 per [...]
Lalu Prasad Yadav, Rabri Devi host iftar
Aug 27(PTI): RJD supremo Lalu Prasad and his wife Rabri Devi, the leader of opposition in the Bihar assembly, today threw a big iftar at their residence in Patna. Conspicuous by their absence in the iftar were governor Devanand Konwar and chief Minister Nitish Kumar. LJP president Ramvilas Paswan, dalit Sena chief Ramchandra Paswan, besides [...]
Lalu meets Shahabuddin in jail
Patna, Aug 27 (ET Bureau): It is very common for politicians to go on a temple-visiting spree, seeking divine blessings, ahead of elections. But in Bihar, it has come down to jail-visiting spree for leaders of all hues who will like to be counted in the ensuing state Assembly elections. And so there are no [...]
Nitish, Lalu, Paswan rakhis a hit in Bihar
Patna, Aug 23(IANS): They have a tough electoral contest ahead, but Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and his rivals Lalu Prasad and Ram Vilas Paswan are also jostling for supremacy in Bihar’s rakhi markets. A day ahead of the festival, rakhis named after the three were doing brisk business Monday with reports that Nitish Kumar had [...]
MPs themselves speaking for rise in salary not correct: JD(U)
Aug 22(PTI): With RJD chief Lalu Prasad taking a lead in demanding increase in salaries of MPs, JD(U), his arch-rival in poll-bound Bihar, today said lawmakers themselves pushing for such a hike affects the “credibility” of Parliament. “MPs themselves speaking for rise in their salary is not correct. This affects the credibility of Parliament. Instead [...]
Nitish Kumar disapproves of MPs’ behaviour over salary hike
Aug 21 (PTI): Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar today described the behaviour of MPs in Parliament over the issue of increasing their salaries as “gaucherie”, saying this gives a wrong impression about those who are in politics. “Salary of MPs should be increased. Who says salary can not be increased? But see what is the [...]
Former RJD MP Devendra Yadav launches new party in Bihar
Aug 19 (PTI): After parting company with Lalu Prasad’s RJD, former MP Devendra Prasad Yadav today launched a new party, Samajwadi Janata Dal (Democratic), as a third front to take on the ruling NDA and RJD-LJP combine in the upcoming assembly polls in Bihar. “I have launched a new party as a third alternative to [...]
Bihar’s Gear Shift
Aug 18 (TOI):The countdown to the Bihar assembly polls has begun with Lalu Prasad-led Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and Ramvilas Paswan-led Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) announcing a seat-sharing deal on Monday. The parties have agreed that the RJD will contest 168 of the 243 seats in Bihar and the LJP will field candidates in the [...]
Fodder scam: CBI court summons Lalu
Patna, Aug 18(PTI): A special court today summoned RJD supremo Lalu Prasad, former Bihar Chief Minister Jagannath Mishra and others to appear before it on September six in connection with the multi-crore rupees fodder scam case. Designated CBI Judge Vimal Kumar Jain asked Prasad and others to ensure their personal appearance in connection with the [...]
RJD to project Lalu as chief ministerial candidate
Patna, Aug 16(IANS): The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) is set to project Lalu Prasad as its chief ministerial candidate for the forthcoming Bihar Assembly polls, party sources said on Monday. A senior RJD leader told IANS here that pressure is increasing within the party to project Mr. Prasad as its nominee for the top post. [...]
RJD takes a cue from BSP, to woo upper castes in Bihar
Aug 15 (PTI): The Lalu Prasad-led RJD is planning to take a leaf out of Mayawati’s strategy in Uttar Pradesh to woo upper castes in the run-up to the Bihar assembly polls later this year. With his MY (Muslim-Yadav) combination “intact”, Prasad is going the extra mile to garner the votes of Rajputs, Bhumihars, Brahmins [...]
Bihar court asks Lalu, Rabri, Paswan to appear on Aug 25
Muzaffarpur, Aug 13 (Express India): A Bihar court on Friday asked RJD Chief Lalu Prasad, his wife Rabri Devi and LJP chief Ramvilas Paswan to appear before it on August 25 for allowing their petition seeking exemption from further appearance in a case in which they are accused of damaging public property. Chief Judicial Magistrate Ramesh [...]
BJP holds first Muslim meet in Bihar after 12 years
Patna, Aug 08 (The Hindu): The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday held a Muslim conclave for the first time in a decade in Bihar. In the party’s first minority meet since 1998, top State leaders echoed the motif that the State’s Muslim minorities were edging closer towards the BJP, while declaiming that the Congress [...]
Political change ‘inevitable’ in Bihar: Lalu
Chapra, Aug 07(PTI): Buoyed with the joining of rebel JD(U) leader Prabhunath Singh, RJD president Lalu Prasad on Saturday said political change in Bihar after the Assembly polls later this year was “inevitable”. “It (political change) has now become inevitable … The ineffective Nitish Kumar government is bound to go after the Assembly polls later [...]
Parties settle down to nitty-gritties of seat-sharing in Bihar
Patna, Aug 07(PTI): With Bihar assembly polls scheduled later this year, both ruling NDA and RJD-LJP alliance have started burning the midnight oil trying to give final shape to the contentious issue of seat-sharing, with major partners eyeing the lion’s share. Other parties like the Congress and Bahujan Samaj Party of Uttar Pradesh chief minister [...]
RJD, JD(U) and Samajwadi Party loses national party status
July 30 (PTI): Lalu Prasad’s Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) has been derecognised as a national party by the Election Commission, a decision that comes ahead of the Assembly polls in Bihar. Five other parties also lost their recognition as a State party. Election Commission sources said on Friday that while the parties may retain their [...]
Congress hopes Rahul’s ‘medicine’ will revive party in Bihar
July 27 (PTI): After its revival in Uttar Pradesh, the Congress is hoping that Rahul Gandhi’s “right medicine” will help resuscitate the party in poll-bound Bihar, where it has been out of power for the last two decades. “We were ill there (Bihar). We got a good doctor, who gave us the right medicine. There [...]
Boy hung upside down, beaten in Bihar village
Patna, July 27 (CNN-IBN): A boy was hung upside down and beaten mercilessly in a Bihar village on Monday by the husband of the panchayat chief Sangita Devi. The OBC boy, Rajesh Mahato, was accused of a rape attempt and then assaulted. The victim’s family though claims that the boy was punished for exposing corruption [...]
Nitish Kumar must go: Bihar Oppn
Patna, July 22 (IANS): The Opposition in Bihar on Thursday stuck to its demand for the resignation of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for his alleged involvement in a Rs 11,412 crore scam, a day after a slipper was flung at the assembly speaker amid unruly scenes. And, upping the ante, 11 legislators of the Lok [...]
JD(U) accuses Lalu Prasad of “masterminding” assembly chaos
Patna, July 21(PTI): Bihar’s ruling party JD(U) on Wednesday accused RJD leader Lalu Prasad of “masterminding” the chaotic scenes by opposition members in the two houses of the assembly as part of a “design to mislead and fool” the people. Condemning the chaotic scenes created by opposition members in the state assembly and council since [...]
Gates of Bihar assembly shut after lawmakers clash
July 20 (IANS): Gates of the Bihar assembly complex were shut and security tightened Tuesday evening after clashes between the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and opposition members in the assembly over alleged financial irregularities in the state. Entry to the assembly premises was prohibited, mediapersons were made to leave and even former chief minister Lalu [...]
Lalu to Nitish: I won’t forget this humiliation
Patna, July 20 (PTI): RJD supremo Lalu Prasad was on Tuesday prevented from entering the Bihar Assembly where opposition MLAs were on an indefinite dharna demanding the resignation of the Nitish Kumar government. Prasad drove straight from the airport to the Assembly and insisted that he be permitted to meet his agitating colleagues in the [...]
Rabri out of fight for CM’s post in Bihar polls
July 20 (IANS) : She has been chief minister for eight years, but Rabri Devi may be out of the reckoning this time with the view that only her husband and RJD supremo Lalu Prasad or partner LJP’s Ram Vilas Paswan can counter Chief Minister Nitish Kumar in the Bihar assembly polls. In fact, Lalu Prasad [...]
Pawar plan for Bihar: target Cong – NCP strategy to dent ally’s revival hopes
July 18 (The Telegraph): If your friend isn’t game, play spoilsport. Sharad Pawar’s NCP is gearing up to damage the Congress’s prospects in the coming Bihar elections and has worked out a plan to target Muslim voters, a segment his central ally banks on for its revival in the state. Sources in the NCP said [...]
Paswan seeks ban on RSS, VHP
July, 17 (TNN)Saharsa/Madhepura: Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) chief Ram Vilas Paswan has alleged that the RSS, Bajrang Dal and VHP were involved in 90 per cent riots and bomb explosions in the country and demanded that these organizations should be banned in the country. While addressing a public meeting at Sattar Kataiya, about 12 km [...]
Nitish responsible for spread of Naxalism in Bihar: Lalu Prasad
July 17 (PTI): RJD president Lalu Prasad on Thursday blamed chief minister Nitish Kumar for the spread of Maoist activities in Bihar. “Nitish Kumar is responsible for the spread of Maoist activities in Bihar… Maoists have now spread to two-thirds of the state,” Prasad told reporters here. The RJD chief also alleged that Kumar was [...]
Bihar opposition parties demand Nitish Kumar’s resignation
Patna, July 16 (IANS) The opposition parties in Bihar called for the resignation of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Friday, a day after Patna High Court ordered a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe against him into alleged financial irregularities of Rs.11,412 crore. The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), the Lok Janshakti Party (LJP), the Congress and [...]
Nitish, Modi will be jailed: Lalu, Paswan
July 16(PTI): Virtually kicking off a joint campaign for the assembly polls in Bihar slated for the year end, RJD chief Lalu Prasad and his LJP counterpart Ramvilas Paswan on Friday accused the ruling NDA of unleashing ‘a reign of corruption and terror in the state’. “Today’s meeting marks the beginning of end of the [...]
CBI probe: Bihar will comment on HC order soon, says Sushil Modi
July 16 (PTI): Bihar government will clear its position on the alleged irregularities in execution of welfare and development schemes after studying the High Court order for CBI probe, Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi on Friday said in Patna. “The State government will make its position on the issue of the alleged irregularities soon”, [...]
Congress, BJP trying to ruin Bihar regional parties: Lalu
July 16 (The Hindu): Rashtriya Janata Dal supremo Lalu Prasad on Thursday accused the BJP and the Congress of being hand in glove to decimate regional parties in Bihar. Both the Congress and the BJP-Janata Dal (United) alliance were tacitly working to destroy the State’s harmony, he alleged. Mr. Prasad criticised Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s [...]
Cong all set for Bihar blitz
July 16 (Hindustan Times): The Congress is bracing up to show it is back in the reckoning in Bihar. After more than 20 years, the party is organising a public rally on its own at the historic Gandhi Maidan in Patna next month. Congress sources said party president Sonia Gandhi would address the election rally, to [...]
HC orders CBI probe into scam involving Bihar CM
Patna, July 15 (DH News Service): The Patna High Court on Thursday asked the CBI to investigate the ‘fraudulent withdrawal’ of Rs 11,412 crore from the State exchequer, in which Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi, Health Minister Nand Kishore Yadav and 44 others have been named accused. Taking serious [...]
BJP wants to contest 103 seats in Bihar
Patna, July 15 (Hindustan Times): The BJP will contest in the coming Bihar elections in at least 103 constituencies, which was its share in which it fought in alliance with the JD(U) in the polls of 2005. In two seats, the two parties were in direct, “friendly” contest. The BJP won one and lost the other. [...]
Strike evokes a near total response in Bihar
Patna, July 10 (IANS) A strike called by the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and the Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) to protest against the fuel price hike hit train and road services and paralysed normal life across Bihar Saturday. More than 5,000 protesters, including RJD chief Lalu Prasad and LJP chief Ram Vilas Paswan, were arrested [...]
Tension between BJP, JD-U ‘a drama’: Lalu Prasad
Patna, June 20 : Terming reports of the growing rift between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its ally, Janata Dal-United (JD-U) “nautanki (drama)”, Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad Sunday dared the BJP to snap ties and contest the coming Bihar polls on its own. “Both of them are playing a drama. They will [...]
Rabri Devi gets bail for abusive remarks
Patna, May 18 (IANS) A Bihar court Tuesday granted bail to former chief minister Rabri Devi for allegedly abusing Chief Minister Nitish Kumar at a public rally. The Chief Judicial Magistrate in Chapra district, about 100 km from here, granted the bail. Earlier this month, the court issued a non-bailable warrant against Rabri Devi, wife [...]
Lalu claims Gates was shocked to see the plight of Bihar villagers
The Bihar NEWS, May 13: RJD chief Lalu Prasad on Thursday claimed that Gates Saheb was shocked to see the miserable condition of the villages of Bihar and exclaimed “Oh God, it is worse than Africa”. Lalu said that the Microsoft boss was so shocked that he sat on a chatai (mat) at a village. [...]
SP, RJD put Gadkari in dog house for his remark
Chandigarh/Patna/New Delhi, May 13 (IANS) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Nitin Gadkari’s “regret” for his remarks likening Mulayam Singh Yadav and Lalu Prasad to “dogs who lick the feet of the Congress and Sonia (Gandhi)”, failed to cut ice with the two leaders and their parties threatened legal action and even to pay him back [...]
RJD plans action against Gadkari for Lalu remarks
Patna, May 13 (IANS) Outraged at Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Nitin Gadkari’s offensive remarks against their chief Lalu Prasad, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leaders in Bihar said they would launch a campaign against him and were also mulling court action. Gadkari had likened Lalu Prasad and Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Mulayam Singh Yadav to [...]
Paswan favours headcount on caste basis
New Delhi, May 5 (IANS) Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) chief Ram Vilas Paswan Wednesday supported enumerating the population on the basis of caste, saying that it is a reality in Indian society and having caste-based data would help the government in planning various socio-economic schemes. “Ignoring the issue won’t do as caste is a reality [...]
Lalu Prasad plans march to expose Nitish Kumar
Patna, May 4 (IANS) After Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar began a march to seek people’s confidence, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad has planned one for himself to expose the government’s failures before the October-November assembly poll. Nitish Kumar completed the first phase of his “Vishwas Yatra” (march to seek people’s confidence) last [...]
Centre using CBI, says Nitish Kumar
PATNA: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Saturday accused the Centre of using the CBI and asked why it had not given permission to the investigating agency to challenge a trial court order acquitting Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad in an assets case. His comment came in the wake of the Supreme Court holding [...]
Biswas questions Centre’s stand in Lalu’s DA case
The Bihar NEWS, April 02: The then CBI Joint Director (East) U N Biswas, who had investigated the Disproportionate Assets case against the RJD chief Lalu Prasad and Rabri Devi, on Thursday questioned why the Centre did not make any appeal when there was a “water-tight case”. “The case was really strong because it was [...]
Bihar cannot challenge Lalu’s acquittal, rules apex court
New Delhi, April 1 (IANS) The Supreme Court Thursday ruled that the Bihar government was not entitled to challenge the acquittal of former railway minister Lalu Prasad and his wife Rabri Devi, a former Bihar chief minister, in a corruption case probed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). The significant verdict, imparting a momentous [...]
