Nitish Kumar's veiled jibe at BJP after CBI re-opens corruption case against Lalu

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday said that the Central Bureau of Investigation reopened a railways corruption case against Lalu Prasad Yadav because of the alliance between Rashtriya Janata Dal and Janata Dal United.

Speaking to reporters, Kumar took a veiled jibe at BJP saying that it is obvious that the corruption case cropped up again because his and Lalu Yadav's parties are back together.

He said, "samajh lijiye na kya ho raha hai, hum log ab sath aa gaye hain isliye ho raha hai. (Understand, what's happening. It's happening because we (RJD and JDU) are back together)."

Kumar's JDU had parted ways with BJP earlier this year and formed government in the state with its former ally RJD.

Meanwhile, Lalu's son Tejashwi Yadav said the reopening of the case was nothing but political vendetta against his family.

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In 2018, CBI had probed corruption allegations against Lalu over allotment of two Railway projects during his tenure as a union minister in UPA-1.

The central probe agency however in 2021 shut the probe citing lack of strong grounds to register FIR against the RJD chief .