Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi today lashed out at Lalu Prasad and his supporters for alleging that the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief was being targeted as he belonged to a backward caste.
A special CBI court in Ranchi had yesterday convicted Prasad and 15 others in a fodder scam case, 21 years after it had surfaced, while acquitting six others, including former Bihar chief minister Jagannath Mishra.
“Upon being held guilty in a case of illegal withdrawal of Rs 89.4 lakh from the treasury, Lalu Prasad has gone to jail, for corruption, for the seventh time. Yet, he is comparing himself to leaders like Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King,” Modi tweeted.
He was hinting at a tweet by the RJD supremo, shortly after his conviction yesterday, wherein he had said, “Had people like Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King, Baba Saheb Ambedkar failed in their efforts, history would have treated them as villains. They still are villains for the biased, racist and casteist minds. No one should expect any different treatment.”
The senior BJP leader, who was one of the petitioners, on whose PIL the Patna High Court had, in 1996, ordered a CBI inquiry into the fodder scam cases, tweeted, “Wonder what type of leadership is provided by people who brazenly indulge in self-praise and amass illegal wealth.”
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