Most political leaders are blessed with the gift of gab but not as generously as Lalu Prasad Yadav who could chatter for a long time even with the judge that has sentenced him to jail for 3.5 years.
The incident occurred while The RJD leader was brought in before Shivpal Singh, but Lalu didn’t even seem a little bit dejected and in fact, his banter filled the courtroom with a smile.
It was Singh who had sentenced Yadav to 3.5 years jail and fined him Rs 10 lakh on January 6 in the case of fraudulent withdrawal of Rs 89.27 lakh of public money by the Bihar animal husbandry department from Deoghar district treasury in undivided Bihar. The conversation that followed, witnesses present in the courtroom said, filled the room briefly with smiles.
Lalu complained that he is not being allowed to meet his party workers to which the judge replied that for that one has to follow jail procedures.
The Yashpal Singh said “This is why I recommended you to be taken in an open jail,”
The 69-year-old leader’s quick reply was: “There will be genocide if the workers are stopped in open jail. All the 20,000 policemen in Jharkhand will have to be deployed in the security.” Singh shot back saying there would be no such thing.
It’s after that Lalu complained that he is being treated like a commoner in jail, to which the judge replied that law is equal for all.
With Makar Sankranti just days away, Yadav rued before Singh about the fact that he could not eat ‘dahi-chura ‘ this time for being in jail. To that, the judge said: “We will have dahi-chura here itself. I will order it if you say.”
Yadav’s reply was witty. “No sir, this is a thing of the Yadavs. If I eat dahi-chura with you, I might end up in a problem like Syed Shahabuddin of Siwan,” he said, prompting everyone to break into laughter.
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