Affidavit shows Lalu’s older son is younger than the younger son

RJD chief Lalu Prasad’s older son Tej Pratap Yadav is a year younger to his younger brother Tejashwi Yadav, suggests the affidavit filed before the returning officer of Mahua assembly seat by Tej Pratap on Monday.

According to the affidavit, Tej Pratap is 25 years old while the one filed by Tejashwi for the Raghopur seat on Saturday shows he is 26.

Both Mahua and Raghopur are dominated by Yadavs, RJD’s traditional vote-base.

Although RJD leaders said Tej Pratap’s could have been a case of oversight, this has left many in the party red-faced.

Unlike Tejashwi, who dropped out of school in 2006 to pursue cricket and business, Tej Pratap passed his intermediate from the Bihar School Examination Board in 2010.

The affidavit also says Tej Pratap has moveable and immoveable assets worth more than ` 2 crore. He jumped into the fray with ` 1.25 lakh cash in hand and ` 4.45 lakh in banks. His liability is a bank loan of ` 18.45 lakh.

In his income tax return for 2014-15, Tej Pratap has shown ` 4.45 lakh as his total income while ‘younger-turned-elder’ brother Tejashwi’s income for the same fiscal was ` 5.09 lakh.

Tej Pratap is accused in one case of disrupting government work in Patna.

After filing his nomination papers, Tej Pratap said the Grand Alliance would emerge victorious in the elections as the electorate has called the bluff of the Narendra Modi-led NDA government. “The people are excited about the Grand Alliance (of RJD, JD-U and Congress),” Tej Pratap said.