Hours after Lalu Prasad’s “visarjan” remarks, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said that the RJD chief can get him shot if he wants.
“He can get me shot. He can’t do anything else. If he wants, he can get me shot…” when asked by reporters about Prasad’s statement.
Earlier today, the RJD chief, who recently returned to Bihar, said that he will be campaigning for the upcoming by-elections to two Assembly seats and will ensure the “visarjan” of Kumar and the ruling NDA in the state.
The former Bihar chief minister returned to his home turf on Sunday after a gap of over three years. Prasad’s return comes days ahead of by-elections in two Assembly constituencies – Tarapur and Kusheshwarsthan – on October 30.
Speaking to ANI, the RJD supremo said, “I had missed two elections due to my illness and detention. The love of Bihar helped me to recover from my illness. I will be campaigning at Kusheshwar Asthan (SC) and Tarapur on October 27.”
The RJD patriarch, who had been lodged in jail in Ranchi since December 2017, was released on bail in April this year after serving four years in prison in connections with cases related to the multi-crore fodder scam.
In January this year, Prasad, who was undergoing treatment for multiple ailments at Ranchi’s Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences for two years, was shifted to All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi.
The RJD which has the largest number of MLAs in the 243-strong Assembly has been claiming that it will wrest the two seats from the ruling NDA and trigger a “khela” (upheaval) in the state’s politics.
