Senior BJP leader Sushil Modi today came out with another allegation against RJD president Lalu Prasad's family, claiming that Raghunath Jha was made a minister in the UPA-1 government in return to his gift to Prasad - a land and a building on it.
RJD quickly retaliated accusing Modi of helping his brother R K Modi succeed in his business when the former was Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar in NDA rule.
In his latest salvo, Modi told a press conference that the RJD chief had recommended RJD MP Raghunath Jha's name to become a minister in UPA-1.
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The opposition leader in Legislative Council showed a deed purportedly of the 'gifting' of property.
Raghunath Jha was a JD(U) MP from Gopalganj who joined RJD to successfully contest from Bettiah in 2004 and became a minister in the Manmohan Singh government the next year.
"Tejaswi and Tej Pratap Yadav were 15 and 16-year-olds when the property was gifted in their name," Modi said.
In retaliation, RJD national spokesman Manoj Jha too addressed a press conference and alleged that the fortune of businessman R K Modi soared with his brother Sushil Modi becoming deputy chief minister of Bihar.
Sushil Modi, however, said that he had no links with the business of his brother.
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