Tejashwi leaves ED office after 8 hrs of questioning in 'land-for-job' scam
30-Jan-2024 10:06 PM 3718
Patna, Jan 30 (Reporter) Former Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejaswi Prasad Yadav was interrogated for nearly eight hours in land for job scam on Tuesday.A day after his father and RJD chief Lalu Parasad were interrogated by the Enforcement Directorate (ED), Tejaswi was also grilled for eight hours in the same case. He is a beneficiary of the dealings done by his father, Lalu, in getting registered plots in the names of family members instead of group D category jobs given to aspirants. Lalu was Railway Minister during the regime of the Congress-led UPA government at the Centre from 2004 to 2009, when the scam was engineered.Tejaswi emerged in a jubilant mood from the Patna-based ED office after interrogation with a victory sign. It was an attempt by him to project his bold face after the interrogation.A large number of party workers waiting outside the ED office started raising slogans in his favour soon after Tejaswi emerged from the ED office. They also slammed the BJP government at the centre for harassing their leader.Misa Bharti, daughter of Lalu, also an RJD member of the Rajya Sabha; Manoj Jha, another party MP of the Rajya Sabha; former Ministers Alok Mehta and Shyam Rajak; and a host of other senior leaders waited outside during the interrogation period of Tejaswi.Former Bihar Minister and senior RJD leader Shyam Rajak said that central investigating agencies were working as different cells of the BJP. On instructions from their political masters, agencies were harassing Lalu and his family members, he remarked...////...
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