By PTI
PATNA: High drama was witnessed on the RJD headquarters right here on Monday when an office-bearer of its youth wing arrived saying that he was resigning in protest in opposition to alleged misbehaviour of Tej Pratap Yadav, the mercurial elder son of nationwide president Lalu Prasad.
Ramraj Yadav, who heads town unit of Yuva RJD, alleged that he was stripped, overwhelmed up and abused by Tej Pratap, with the assistance of his loyal supporters, inside the home of the latter’s mom Rabri Devi on Friday when the home of the previous Chief Minister was teeming with guests at an Iftar celebration she had hosted.
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The guests included the highest brass of RJD in addition to Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, state industries minister Syed Shahnawaz Hussain and former LJP president Chirag Paswan, amongst others.
“I was assigned to look after the arrangements at one of the numerous tents put up inside the bungalow. Tej Pratap got furious upon spotting me, though I was there armed with party communication. He took me inside a room where his men took off my clothes and beat me up”, alleged the celebration chief.
He claimed that Tej Pratap saved egging on his henchmen whereas Ramraj was being humiliated and that he even obtained all the episode videographed.
“I challenge Tej Pratap to come out in public with the video. People will see his real face. He used expletives, not just against me, but (younger brother) Tejashwi Yadav and even (father) Lalu Prasad”, alleged Ramraj who claimed that he had introduced the matter to the discover of Tejashwi and state unit president Jagadanand Singh.
“Tej Pratap had threatened to get me killed. He even named a party MLA with criminal antecedents whom he intended to pitch in for getting me bumped off. My hair still stands on end when I recall the entire episode. The party leadership seems to be in no mood to act. So here I am with my resignation”, mentioned Rajaram.
RJD sources have been, predictably, tight-lipped over the episode which comes as the most recent controversy surrounding the maverick elder son of the celebration’s founding chief.
In energetic politics for lower than a decade, Tej Pratap has been within the information for all of the flawed causes, starting from his private life to his run-ins with these energetic within the celebration.
Tejashwi, the RJD inheritor obvious and the chief of the opposition within the state meeting, who is commonly himself on the receiving finish of his elder brother’s tantrums, was requested in regards to the episode by journalists.
He selected to rush previous, muttering below his breath that the matter can be investigated.
Meanwhile, the BJP which has at all times been fast to fish in troubled waters every time the temperamental Tej Pratap courts an argument, promptly got here out with a response.
BJP OBC morcha nationwide basic secretary and state spokesperson Nikhil Anand underscored Rajaram’s competition that Yadavs have been ill-treated within the RJD, however the truth that its first household belonged to the caste.
“It seems Tej Pratap has a grouse against Yadavs who are well-educated, particularly those hailing from Patna district”, mentioned Anand, himself a Yadav, who additionally recalled the situations involving former Union minister and Ram Kripal Yadav and Sanoj Yadav, each of whom at the moment are with BJP.
Ram Kripal Yadav was seen as Lalu Prasad’s Man Friday till he broke ranks in 2014, fought on a BJP ticket and defeated his former mentor’s daughter Misa Bharti.
Popular in Patna since he was the Deputy Mayor many years in the past, Ram Kripal is alleged to have been upset over the therapy he acquired from the RJD supremo’s elder son.
Sanoj Yadav had give up the celebration in 2017 after Tej Pratap, then the state well being minister, had beat him up at an Iftar celebration hosted by Prasad, who was then out of jail.
