Terming the troublemakers as 'anti-national', Lalu said no one has the right to violate the fundamental rights of the people. About MNS leader Raj Thackeray, Prasad said, "He is desperate and such type of leader will never be successful in the country. The Government should take action against him and his supporters".
After announcing an agitation against the Nitish Kumar-led Bihar government, Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad on Monday declared that he did not want to become the chief minister of Bihar again. At a press conference in Patna, he claimed that he didn't want to be the CM and his party will decide the chief ministerial candidate when it comes to power.
"I am ready to drink all types of poison," he said.
Faced with a challenge to his traditional Other Backward Class-Muslim vote base from the ruling National Democratic Alliance in poll-bound Bihar, Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad appears to be making inclusion of caste in census and opposition to women's reservation bill his major planks to woo the electorate.Strongly pitching for incorporating caste in census, he said opposing it could spark a 'mass agitation'.
The minister went around the station for about half an hour along with senior ministry officials and security personnel inspecting security arrangements, and met passengers of the 'Friendship Train'.
Kumar's comments quoting 16th century poet Rahim were seen as a veiled attack on Lalu.
The performance of railways was 'below par' during 2004-05 to 2008-09 when the Rashtriya Janata Dal chief was at the helm of affairs, the White Paper laid by railway minister Mamata Banerjee revealed.
The reports of Sachar and Ranganath Misra committees on minority welfare on Thursday generated heat in the Lok Sabha, with RJD chief Lalu Prasad and his SP counterpart Mulayam Singh Yadav charging the government with being anti-Muslim and leading walkout by their party members.
Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Lalu Prasad on Tuesday had the Lok Sabha in splits when he suggested that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh should be selected as the first Lokpal as he was an honest person.
Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Shatrughan Sinha expressed sympathy on Tuesday for jailed RJD president Lalu Prasad and said he prayed that he comes out soon with the help of an upper court order.
'Anyone they don't like can be potentially arrested and thrown in jail for 30 days to induce regime change.'
Mukul was Lalu's private secretary during the latter's tenure as chief minister between 1990 and 1996 and went missing soon after the fodder scam was unearthed.
Modi earned his spurs as a doughty leader of the Opposition in the assembly, a post he held till 2004 when he got elected to the Lok Sabha from Bhagalpur.
A case has been filed against them in this regard.
On September 18 this year, Prasad would be delivering a lecture to management students and the faculty at IIM-A, explaining finer points of the Indian Railways 'turnaround,' which earned a profit of Rs 15,000 crore (Rs 150 billion) in 2005-06.
"Dada and Didi have failed the people. Both are concerned only about West Bengal. The county had seen Didi a few days back. Today it also saw Dada."
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday stood by Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad, who has parted ways with the United Progressive Alliance government, in the Supreme Court by opposing the decision of the Nitish Kumar government in Bihar to challenge his acquittal in a disproportionate assets case. Prasad and his wife's stand, that the Bihar government has no locus standi to appeal against their acquittal, was supported by the CBI.
The committee headed by Justice U C Banerjee, which probed the Sabarmati Express blaze, had said in the report the fire was 'accidental'.
Former Bihar Chief Minister Lalu Prasad, who was sentenced to five years rigorous imprisonment and a fine of Rs five lakh in a 17-year-old fodder scam case, on Thursday claimed that he was falsely implicated.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah introduced bills in Lok Sabha addressing the removal of arrested PMs, CMs, and ministers, sparking opposition protests. Shah emphasized the need for public decision on whether leaders should govern from jail, criticizing the Congress party's stance on the matter.
Altogether, 38 other suppliers, including five women, were sentenced to prison terms ranging between two and a half years and five years and a fine of up to Rs 2.75 lakh each.
Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav exhorted students to keep three points in mind- honesty, dedication to the organisation and a vision for the future - to ensure that India takes its rightful place in the world .
Condemning as dastardly and inhuman the serial blasts in Mumbai, Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday night asked the Maharashtra government to apprehend the culprits behind the attacks immediately.
"Just because Modi enjoys the patronage of senior BJP leader L K Advani, the opposition leader in the Lok Sabha, the latter cannot escape culpability for the mass murder," Lalu said.
Union minister Giriraj Singh on Saturday claimed that Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's Janata Dal-United and its ally Rashtriya Janata Dal, founded and headed by Lalu Prasad Yadav, were heading for a merger.
Challenging the order of High Court, the couple contended in their petition that the state government was not competent to file an appeal against the trial court's verdict acquitting them in DA case. Since the case was probed by CBI, so either the Centre or the investigating agency was competent to challenge the CBI court verdict, the petition said.
Thackeray, in an editorial published in party mouthpiece Saamana, said, "The Karunanidhi government has issued an ordinance making Tamil compulsory in all schools in the state." "Lalu, who has turned Bihar into hell, should hold a mela of Biharis in Tamil Nadu, ruled by his ally at the Centre, to champion the cause of North Indians there."
The Patna District Magistrate had been directed to get these quarters vacated immediately and also realise fines from its occupants at market rate.
Central Bureau of Investigation Special Court Judge Shiv Pal Singh, hearing the case, was quick to reply, "Then play the tabla (musical instrument)".
Yadav came out with a video statement, nearly seven minutes long, fulminating against a news portal which had carried a report about his divorce case, apparently presenting him in a poor light.
Toughening his stand over the Women's Reservation Bill, Rashtriya Janata Dal supremo Lalu Prasad said on Saturday that he would not bow down to any pressure and continue fighting against the present form of the bill.
Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad Yadav on Tuesday alleged that Karnataka's mining baron Reddy brothers paid huge money as bribe to Bharatiya Janata Party leaders and demanded a thorough probe into the issue by a parliamentary panel.
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar asserted that the NDA government, led by him, put an end to frequent Hindu-Muslim clashes in the state by taking measures such as fencing graveyards and bringing to justice those involved in communal riots. He also criticized the opposition, particularly Tejashwi Yadav, accusing them of lacking understanding and experience. Kumar's claims were met with anger and walkout by the opposition members.
'If the NDA returns with the BJP substantially ahead of the JD-U, a BJP CM bid becomes plausible; if the gap is narrow or JD-U holds pivotal seats, continuity with Nitish is the lower-risk option.'
The Bihar unit of Samajwadi Party, which had protested over denial of seats in the grand alliance for Bihar Assembly polls, claimed to have fruitful talks with the alliance partners Rashtriya Janata Dal President Lalu Prasad and Chief Minister Nitish Kumar over seat sharing.
Supporters of Yadav created ruckus in the hospital premises protesting the decision.
