Ousted RJD leader says Tej Pratap slapped him at Iftar

RJD President Lalu Prasad Yadav’s elder son and Bihar Health Minister Tej Pratap Yadav found himself in the middle of a fresh controversy when a party functionary accused the minister of thrashing and humiliating him at an Iftaar party on Friday.

Sanoj Yadav, a member of the party’s state committee while weeping on camera, said Tej Pratap had slapped and abused him and asked the guards to throw him out of the house. “When I reached Laluji’s residence on Friday afternoon, Tej Pratap saw me and asked how did I enter. He held me by my collar and slapped me, then asked the guard to shoot me,” he said, recalling the sequence of events.

The RJD functionary claimed that party President Lalu Prasad Yadav was also witnessing this commotion but did not come to his aid despite repeated pleas. “I have served the party for over two decades and they are now calling me an agent of the RSS,” Sanoj said.

However, the RJD sources said Sanoj had been suspended from the party on June 22 for misbehaviour and indiscipline. Sanoj was peeved at being denied a better position in the party and had indulged in a scuffle with state president Ramchandra Purbe, …read more