Buoyed by senior JD(U) leader and former vice-chairman of Bihar Legislative Council, Virendra Chaudhary, joining the RJD after criticising the ruling party, RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav on Saturday heightened his attacks on chief minister Nitish Kumar and described his government as a “regime of frauds and scams”.
Mr Yadav, personally present at the ceremony to welcome Mr Chaudhary into the RJD, was in one of his liveliest and most aggressive moods as he addressed the gathering at the party office.
But, evidently tired after attending the Lok Sabha and party meetings in Bihar, he could not stop dozing off several times on the dais as other leaders went on addressing the gathering.
Mr Chaudhary, a well-known leader in Bihar’s Mithilanchal area, joined the RJD along with scores of his supporters and JD(U) activists from Madhubani districts. Mr Chaudhary said Mr Kumar had turned into a “despot” and gave no time for meeting genuine and loyal JD(U) leaders like himself.
“Kumar has raised the bureaucrats’ spirits so high in Bihar that even JD(U) legislators are very disappointed,” he said.
Referring to the CAG reports, Mr Yadav said: “There is now no doubt that the Nitish Kumar government is a regime of frauds and scams. In the chief minister’s home district of Nalanda, corrupt officials made a woman give birth to six children in just two months in order to make illegal gains from welfare schemes”. He was talking about the alleged corruption in the Chief Minister’s Mothers’ Protection Scheme highlighted in the recent CAG report.
Mr Yadav said Mr Kumar was afraid of a CBI probe because the scams were of his own government’s making.
He expressed confidence about the RJD’s alliance with the LJP and said the Assembly polls would show the NDA government the doors.