Bihar bypolls: Nitish Kumar congratulates winning candidates
Elections | Mar 14, 2018, 10:14 PM ISTCM Nitish Kumar, who is also the national president of the JD(U), greeted the winners through an official release.
CM Nitish Kumar, who is also the national president of the JD(U), greeted the winners through an official release.
The bypolls were the first electoral test after Chief Minister Nitish Kumar dumped the Grand Alliance and joined hands with the BJP last year.
Sarafaraz Alam is son of Mohammad Taslimuddin whose demise necessitated the bypoll. BJP’s Pradip Singh had won from here in 2009 and lost in 2014.
Defeat of JD(U) nominee Abhiram Sharma at Jehanabad is a bad news for Nitish Kumar who had in July last year dumped the Grand Alliance and joined hands with the BJP to form a coalition government.
RJD state President Ram Chander Purve said both Jha and Karim were chosen by party chief Lalu Prasad, currently lodged in a Ranchi jail in connection with two fodder scam cases.
Notably, in the past, Kumar, too, had been demanding a special status for Bihar and even made it his poll plank in the state elections.
The announcement came after Manjhi held a series of meetings with the Yadav family. According to reports, HAM chief first held a meeting former Bihar CM Rabri Devi, followed by her sons Tejaswi Yadav and Tej Pratap Yadav.
Accusing that Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and his government was shielding Baitha, Leader of the Opposition Tejashwi Yadav also demanded a discussion in the state assembly over the delay in his arrest.
The new Rashtriya Janata Dal National Executive has new faces like Lalu Prasad's sons -- Tejashwi Yadav, who is Leader of Opposition in the Assembly, and Tej Pratap, a former Health Minister.
Lalu, accompanied by his elder son Tej Pratap, arrived at court for hearing in the fifth fodder scam case RC47A/96, related to Doranda Treasury.
Without naming RJD, Nitish Kumar said that he had not turned his back on any of his govt's agenda but found it difficult to work with people who believed in using power for amassing wealth.
Special court judge SS Prasad will deliver judgment in the case, which is related to fraudulent withdrawal of Rs 33.67 crore from Chaibasa treasury in 1992-1993.
The 79-year-old Jha died due to various problems including organ failure, cardiac arrest and septic shock in the national capital.
The former Bihar chief minister, who is lodged in Ranchi's Bira Munda jail, was earlier this month sentenced to three-and-a-half-years jail in second case of over Rs 900 crore fodder scam linked to illegal withdrawal of money from Deogarh treasury.
Rabri Devi, a former Bihar chief minister, told reporters at the residence of Gangotri Devi that the latter was about four years elder to the RJD chief and that she had not been keeping well for some time.
Lalu, who was till now imprisoned in Ranchi's Birsa Munda Jail, will be transported to Hazaribagh open jail today, where he will reportedly be employed as a gardner.
The special CBI court in Ranchi sentenced Lalu to three-and-a-half years in jail and imposed a fine of Rs 10 lakh on him in the fodder scam case relating to fraudulent withdrawal of Rs 89.27 lakh from the Deoghar Treasury 21 years ago.
CBI court judge Shiv Pal Singh, who had convicted Prasad, along with 10 others on December 23, also imposed a fine of Rs 10 lakh on him for two cases in the scam.
The Special CBI Court had on December 23 convicted Lalu for offences of cheating with criminal conspiracy under the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and the Prevention of Corruption Act.
The assertions were made by Shivanand Tiwary and senior party leader Jagdanand Singh.
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