Tejashwi rubbishes claims that Rs 600 cr was recovered from his family, says `Thenga Mila’

TIL Desk/National/Patna/ Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav has rubbished the Enforcement Directorate’s claim that “proceeds of crime amounting to Rs 600 crore were seized in raids last week and alleged that ED officials left his Delhi house only after getting a nod from above”.

The RJD leader was talking to reporters upon return from Delhi, where he had gone during Holi to spend time with septuagenarian father Lalu Prasad who is recuperating after a kidney transplant, and wife Rajshree Yadav who is expecting the couple’s first child.  “Thenga mila jewellry hai”, scoffed Yadav using the Hindi slang to repudiate the ED’s claim of huge recovery in the raids conducted in connection with the land for jobs scam pertaining to Prasad’s tenure as Railway Minister during the UPA-1 government.

“Raids were also conducted on homes of my sisters who are not in politics and who got married after my father had ceased to be the Railway Minister. My sisters and their in-laws were made to take off the jewellery they were wearing. Photographs of the used ornaments were taken to buttress the ED’s claim of having recovered a khazana (treasure)”, alleged the Deputy CM. The RJD leader squarely blamed the ruling BJP at the Center for the travails his family had to undergo and said “Union Home Minister Amit Shah is very fond of explaining chronology of events. People can take note of the chronology of the central agency’s action against me and my family”.