'Tejashwi won't quit, Nitish has not asked for his resignation'

Rashtriya Janata Dal President Lalu Prasad on Wednesday ruled out resignation by his son Tejashwi Prasad Yadav as Bihar’s deputy chief minister in the wake of the Central Bureau of Investigation filing an FIR against him as an accused in land-for-hotels case.

“Has Nitish asked for the resignation of Tejashwi Yadav?” Prasad asked in reply to a volley of questions by scribes regarding the Janata Dal-United’s insistence that the embattled deputy chief minister should come clean on accusations in public which is politically being construed as JD-U’s demand of his resignation.

“Are they (JD-U) police that we have to answer them?” he shot back to another question that JD-U spokesmen have been regularly saying that Tejashwi Yadav has to come clean in the public domain.

In its legislature party meeting, the RJD had earlier too ruled out resignation of Tejashwi Yadav.

Prasad, who was speaking after a meeting of the RJD legislature party at the 10, Circular Road residence of Rabri Devi, said, “The RJD legislators will discharge their
functions under the leadership of Tejashwi Yadav and Rabri Devi in the state assembly and legislative council respectively.”

The RJD’s decision on the resignation issue comes ahead of the JD-U legislature party meeting. Chief Minister Nitish Kumar will chair the meeting.

The RJD legislature party meeting was advanced by a day as Lalu Prasad has to go to Ranchi on Wednesday night and would stay there for the next three days in connection with a fodder scam related case.