Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), which is battling internal dissent with the party’s State unit chief Jagdanand Singh publicly sulking after his son Sudhakar Singh’s resignation and frequent outbursts by Cabinet Minister Tej Pratap Yadav, party’s national President Lalu Prasad Yadav, who was re-elected for the 12th time, issued a dire warning to party leaders against … Read more
A special CBI court today announced a 5-year jail sentence and Rs 60 lakh fine for Lalu Prasad Yadav in the fifth fodder scam case. Lalu Yadav was declared guilty on February 15. Of the 99 accused in the case, 24 were acquitted, while three-year jail terms were pronounced for 46 accused. Yadav has been … Read more
Former Bihar chief minister and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Lalu Prasad Yadav has been convicted of fraudulent withdrawal from Doranda treasury by a CBI Special Court in Ranchi on Tuesday. The CBI court, while pronouncing its verdict in the fodder scam case, found the RJD leader guilty. Earlier in April last year, the Jharkhand … Read more
Celebrations were back at the RJD state headquarters here on Thursday when news broke that the party’s de facto leader Tejashwi Yadav has tied the knot with a childhood friend. The eligible bachelor said ‘I-do’ at a farm house in Delhi, in the presence of his parents Lalu Prasad Yadav and Rabri Devi, his eight … Read more
PATNA: Rashtriya Janata Dal‘s jailed president Lalu Prasad’s alleged attempts to poach MLAs of the ruling NDA in Bihar and topple the newly formed Nitish Kumar government on Wednesday stirred the political waters in the state. Sushil Kumar Modi, the Chief Minister’s former deputy and trusted lieutenant in the BJP, who had made a sensational … Read more
MUMBAI: Social media chatter and sentiments don’t translate into on-ground results in events like elections in India, finds a latest report by Checkbrand, said an ADG Online-funded online sentiment analysis company. As per the analysis of data on social media for the last one month, RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav was growing in popularity on social … Read more
New Delhi: At the peak of his political life, the widely-respected socialist veteran Raghuvansh Prasad Singh increasingly faced a contradictory challenge –– of having to harmonise his undisputed Mr Clean image and idealistic convictions with his unflinching support to Lalu Prasad Yadav, even when the RJD chief plunged deep into a cesspool of corruption charges … Read more