Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad Yadav has demanded that Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Amit Shah be charged with sedition. Speaking to journalists last weekend, Prasad said that in the run-up to the Bihar Assembly election last year Shah had claimed that if the Janata Parivar alliance - of which the RJD is a constituent - were to win, there would be celebrations in Pakistan. "For such remarks he should also have been charged with sedition," Prasad said while mocking the BJP for not being able to "teach lessons on patriotism to its ally, the Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party, which has declared the 2001 Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru a martyr".
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