Patna, May 23: Criticising Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for appointing four 'tainted' RJD ministers in his team, including the multi-crore fodder scam accused, Laloo Prasad Yadav, the BJP in Bihar today said it would launch an agitation across the state to make people aware of the 'dark' background of the ministers. Party workers will hold sit-in demonstrations and protest-marches in every district to protest against the inclusion of Laloo Yadav and three of his party colleagues, chargesheeted in separate criminal cases, in the Union cabinet, state party president Gopal Narayan Singh told mediapersons.
While the RJD president Laloo Yadav is chargesheeted by CBI in the fodder scam, Md Taslimuddin is an accused in over a dozen criminal cases, including alleged rape of a minor. Taslimuddin was removed within a week as Minister of State for Home from the United Front government headed by H D Devegowda for his criminal background. Among two others, Jay Prakash Narayan Yadav had to resign as Education Minister in the Rabri Devi cabinet in 2002 following his implication in the scam involving awarding of fake B.Ed degrees by some colleges of the Lalit Narayan Mithila University. He was jailed in the case.
The MP from Darbhanga, M A Fatimi, was accused of giving shelter to an aide of underworld don, Dawood Ibrahim. Singh said that his party would make people aware of the 'dark' background of Laloo Yadav and others and expose the Congress claim of giving a 'clean' ministry.
Bureau Report