Sushil Modi dares CM to take action against Lalu’s kin

Senior Bihar BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi dared chief minister Nitish Kumar on Monday to take action against RJD chief Lalu Prasad’s family for misusing his name and the address of the chief minister’s official residence in the alleged benami property scam.

Sushil Modi alleged that Prasad’s daughter Chanda Yadav had given chief minister’s official residence address as her own as adirector of Delight Marketing Pvt Ltd in 2014.

He had on April 7 demanded that Kumar sack Prasad’s two minister sons Tejaswi Prasad Yadav, the deputy chief minister and Tej Pratap Yadav, the state health minister for allegedly getting benami properties worth ₹750 crore transferred in their names. “Both Tej Pratap Yadav and Tejashwi Prasad Yadav, ministers in Nitish government, are not only involved in land and mall scam worth ₹750 crore but have also misused the address of the chief minister’s official residence as that of Chanda Yadav’s address while appointing her as the director of the company,” teh BJP leader said.

“Nitish Kumar should tell the people what type of action he intends to take against those misusing the name of the CM and CM’s residence,” Modi said.

Chanda Yadav had shown her address as ‘CM House, 1 Anne Marg, Sachivalaya Thana, GPO, Patna, Patna-800001’, Sushil Modi claimed and asked Prasad’s minister sons whether the family indeed resided in that address when she became director of the company in 2014.

Tej Pratap Yadav and Tejashwi Prasad Yadav while countersigning the documents submitted to the registrar as directors of Delight company had deliberately used the address of the CM’s official residence to “show off power and influence”.