BIHAR: Sushil Kumar Modi, the Ex deputy Chief Minister of Bihar has made stunning claimed on Tuesday accusing RJD chief Lalu Prasad of trying to entice NDA legislators over phone calls from Ranchi, where he is serving his jail for fodder scam cases.
The former deputy CM said on Twitter that Lalu was making calls from a phone number “to NDA MLAs & promising ministerial berths. When I telephoned, Lalu directly picked up. I said don’t do these dirty tricks from jail, you will not succeed.”
The phone number that he mentioned in the tweet belongs to Lalu’s caretaker Irfan Ansari. The number is got switched off after the tweet. Irfan has been allowed access to the former Bihar CM at Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (Rims) campus.
Soon after Modi’s tweet, BJP’s Jharkhand president Deepak Prakash also tweeted: “Why has the honourable Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren kept his eyes shut on this matter?”
Under the prison manual, Lalu is not allowed to use mobile for communication and is supposed to meet visitors only once a week only. While, MLC, Neeraj Kumar demanded that Lalu be shifted to Hotwar jail to prevent any misdoings.