Bihar: Nitish Kumar govt wants to open an orphanage on Lalu Prasad's family land

The Nitish Kumar administration wants to repurpose three acres of land in Patna that RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav's family allegedly received for awarding a private firm a contract for the maintanence of two IRCTC hotels.

Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Modi said Lalu should come clean before the CBI, and let the Bihar government build either a school (or college) or an orphanage on it.

"I have been closely associated with this case, and I can tell that Lalu has no answers for the corruption he has indulged in," he said.

"Lalu should accept before the CBI that he is involved in corruption and hand over the three acre plot to the state government, which will build an orphanage or open a school or college."

CBI INTERROGATION

The CBI had questioned Lalu Prasad Yadav and his son, former Deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav, in connection with the alleged IRCTC scam on Friday.

Why did former Corporate Affairs Minister and his close aide Prem Chand Gupta hand over his company, Delight Marketing Pvt. Ltd - along with the 3 acres of land - to Tejaswi Yadav for just Rs 4 lakh? How can a mall worth Rs 750 crore be built on the land? Sushil Modi said Lalu Prasad Yadav has no answers.

"If Lalu had any answers for the corruption charges slapped on him, Tejashwi would not have had to resign from the deputy CM post. Nitish Kumar had asked Tejashwi to explain the corruption charges levelled against him but he chose not to," Sushil Modi said.

This proves that Lalu's family has no answers for the crime they have done, so what will they tell before the CBI?"

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