An RJD leader shared a photo of his meeting with Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav on social media triggering a backlash from BJP. The RJD leader’s Facebook post on meeting with Lalu Prasad Yadav, who is serving a sentence in the fodder scam, got BJP describing it as as a violation of the jail manual. Lalu Yadav has been kept at the RIMS director’s bungalow while he is undergoing treatment.
Jharkhand BJP spokesperson Pratul Shahdev said that Hemant Soren’s government keeps saying that the ailing Lalu Prasad Yadav has been kept in at the RIMS director’s bungalow to save him from corona infection, but in a picture posted on Facebook, he looks fit. He added that neither the leader who came to meet him nor Laluji himself wore masks, so does this not place them at heightened risk of infection.
The BJP spokesperson went on to say that the jail manual states that the sentenced prisoner will not have any political interaction and the assistant jailer will be present during the meeting. But in the photo posted on Facebook, the RJD leader is saying that he informed Lalu Yadav about the election situation and we do not see any jail official in the picture.
Lalu Yadav, convicted in the fodder scam, is suffering from multiple diseases and undergoing treatment in RIMS. He was shifted from the paying ward of RIMS to the RIMS director’s bungalow to prevent him from getting affected with corona infection.
