On Friday, the CBI searched the homes and properties of Lalu Prasad and his family as part of investigations alleged irregularities in leasing out railway hotels when the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief was the railway minister.
Prasad said it is aconspiracy saying he was being targeted for bringing the opposition together against the Modi government.
“Hum mitti mein mil jayenge lekin BJP aur Modi sarkar ko hata ke dum lenge (I will rest only after removing the BJP and Modi government.”
Prasad was not home when a CBI team reached his residence at 10, Circular Road in Patna. He was in Ranchi to appear in a fodder scandal case that involves large-scale embezzlement of government funds.
Friday’s raids come weeks after the income tax department searched locations in New Delhi and adjoining areas in connection with corruption charges against Prasad’s daughter Misa Bharti and her husband Shailesh Kumar, who were also questioned.
Tejashwi and his elder brother TejPratap, who is the Bihar health minister, are also battling charges of corruption.
