‘Afraid of Bihar after Karnataka’: Tejashwi Yadav speaks on Rabri’s quizzing

Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav on Friday looked dejected due to his mother Rabri Devi’s quizzing by the ED in the land-for-job case. He considered it a political vendetta.

“We knew this would happen. The government agencies have been targeting the Opposition because they fear after facing the debacle in the recently concluded Karnataka assembly polls. They may also drag me into the case in the future. However, the innocent people don’t have to fear,” he said.

The ED questioned Rabri Devi for about five hours in the national capital on Thursday in a money laundering case associated with the land-for-jobs scam.

Apart from Rabri, some of her children, including Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar Tejashwi Yadav, Misa Bharti, and several other leaders, were questioned by the agency over the last few months.

As per the probe agencies, between 2004 and 2009, many people got jobs in various zones of the Indian Railways, and in return, they had to transfer their land to Yadav’s family members.

The CBI has made it clear in its complaint that no advertisement was issued in any place for the appointment of such jobs, but several people from Patna got appointment letters in different railway zones such as Mumbai, Jabalpur, Kolkata, Jaipur, and Hajipur.