Patna: Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Prasad on Saturday said the CBI court’s sentencing of his father and party chief Lalu Prasad was a threat to his life for challenging the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
“We apprehend a threat to Laluji’s life as he has been challenging the BJP’s hegemony and trying to unite the parties opposed to it across the country. He is innocent and he will get justice in the higher courts. The people of Bihar will give a befitting reply to those behind the conspiracy against the RJD supremo,” said Tejashwi, Prasad’s younger son and Leader of Opposition in the state Assembly.
Asserting that the RJD would not get cowed down by the latest development, he said the workers of the party would work more resolutely than ever before and added that the Janat Dal (United) and the BJP would be made to bite the dust in the next election.
Prasad was sentenced to 14 years in prison in a case relating to fraudulent withdrawal of money from the Dumka treasury when he was the chief minister of undivided Bihar.