A day after 13 of his 22 MLAs pledged their support to Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, a furious RJD Chief Lalu Prasad on Tuesday said the JD(U) leader was behind the poaching of his MLAs and the Speaker, too, was involved.
RJD Chief Lalu Prasad. PTI
Speaking to reporters ahead of an emergency meeting called to do a headcount of his MLAs, Prasad sought to compare what Nitish was doing to America's 'Watergate scandal'. Nine of the thirteen MLAs are likely to attend.
"Jo Nitish ne kiya hai, woh America ka 'Watergate' ki tarah hai," Lalu said, further alleging that the Bihar Speaker was also involved in the 'conspiracy'. "Bihar Assembly Speaker misrepresented facts to break RJD... Both JD(U) and BJP are involved in this."
The RJD MLAs who on Monday walked out were Samrat Chaudhary, Raghvendra Pratap Singh, Durga Prasad Singh, Lalit Yadav, Anirudh Kumar, Jeetendra Rai, Akhtar-ul-Islam Sahin, Akhtar-ul-Iman, Abdul Gafood, Faiyazz, Javed Iqbal Ansari, Ram Lakhan Ram Raman and Chandrasekhar.
But soon after news of the resignations emerged, six of the 13 MLAs turned up at Prasad's door saying their signatures had been forged and they had no intentions of quitting the party. Three more are expected to 'return' to the party.
Samrat Chaudhary, the son of senior RJD leader Shakuni Chaudhary, had alleged on Monday that Prasad had turned his party into the 'B team' of Congress in the last three months.
"The party which sent him to jail by tearing up an ordinance has become the ideal of Lalu Prasad who is losing no opportunity to pester its leaders," Chaudhary told reporters.
"It will be better for Lalu Prasad to merge the party with Congress instead of allying with it for the Lok Sabha elections."
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