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BJP demands judicial inquiry against 'Sadhu'

Sushil Kumar Modi, leader of the Opposition in the Bihar assembly, today demanded a judicial inquiry into the conduct of Chief Minister Rabri Devi's brother Anirudh Prasad Yadav alias Sadhu Yadav for allegedly running a parallel government.

Modi, in a letter to the state chief secretary, accused Yadav of patronising gangsters and influencing government decisions.

The Bharatiya Janata Party politician demanded that the inquiry be conducted either by a sitting judge or a retired judge of the Patna high court.

Talking to reporters, Modi said the cases filed against Sadhu Yadav had either been hushed up or disposed of in haste.

He urged the chief secretary to make public the position of all the cases filed against Yadav.

Yadav was involved in cases related to the Indian Arms Act, rioting, and booth-capturing in the 1996 Lok Sabha elections, Modi said.

The Central Bureau of Investigation, he said, was probing the incident in which Yadav attacked students of Jawaharlal Nehru University at Bihar Bhavan in Delhi.

Besides, Yadav had ransacked Patna airport, Patna railway station, and the income-tax offices in Patna after the CBI had interrogated his brother-in-law Laloo Prasad Yadav, who was then chief minister of Bihar, in connection with the multi-million-rupee fodder scandal.

Yadav had also threatened Law Minister Deonath Prasad on October 6 with dire consequences if he failed to take over the law department, Modi said.

He also accused Yadav of influencing government decisions on transfers and postings of bureaucrats and terrorising Rashtriya Janata Dal legislators to support his sister's government.

'When does one call for President's rule if not now?'

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