Ahmedabad: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday enquired about the health of former Bihar Chief Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav, who was injured in a freak accident on Friday night. "Spoke to Lalu ji this morning asking him about his health after an accident yesterday. Hope he gets back to the best of the health soon," Modi tweeted.
RJD president Lalu Prasad had sustained injuries on his head and face when the windshield of his car broke and shards of glass hit him when he was going to Vaishali district on late Friday night.
After receiving treatment in a private hospital, Yadav is expected to go for a party programme later in the day. Prasad's PA said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Speaker Meira Kumar and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi rang up the RJD president to enquire about his health after the accident.
Actor turned BJP MP Shatrughan Sinha also talked to him. Sinha told reporters, "He is a good friend and it's a courtesy call to enquire about his injuries. No political meaning should be attached to it."...
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04:10 PM, May 04, 2013
Actor-turned-politicians Shatrughan Sinha and Jaya Prada have teamed up with the maverick RJD President Lalu Prasad for a Bhojpuri film. Besides the three, Bhojpuri film star Manoj Tiwari would be seen in action in the movie produced by actress-MP Jaya Prada. ...
06:24 PM, Mar 17, 2013
Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) president Lalu Prasad on Sunday backed Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde's accusation that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) were conducting terror training camps and promoting "Hindu terrorism" in the country. "He (Shinde) is the Union Home minister. Will he tell a lie?" Prasad asked while talking to reporters after being unanimously elected the party's president for the eighth time. ...
09:10 PM, Jan 20, 2013
Patna: In a veiled attack on Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) president Lalu Prasad Yadav, whose party supported a Left sponsored Bihar strike, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Tuesday said some people were suffering from 'the virus of impatience' to dislodge his government, but they would not succeed. "Like the virus of cold, some people are gripped with the virus of impatience and are looking for opportunity to dislodge my government,...
02:55 PM, Oct 16, 2012
Banka: Playing the minority card, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav on Friday questioned Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's secular credentials alleging that he was ignoring persecution of Muslim youths of the state and had become a 'parrot' of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). "The chief minister is behaving like a pet parrot of the RSS and BJP by turning blind eye...
09:34 PM, Oct 12, 2012
Patna: The RJD on Sunday said FDI in retail will benefit the farmers but the small traders will be "hit badly". "The FDI in multi-brand retail is bound to benefit the farmers who will get a fair price by selling their produces directly to the retail companies," RJD national spokesperson Ramkripal Yadav and Ex-MP Vijay Krishna told reporters in Patna. The middlemen in marketing chain of food grains will definitely...
07:04 PM, Sep 16, 2012
Samastipur (Bihar): RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav on Saturday alleged that rampant corruption particularly at the lower level of bureaucracy is prevailing in Bihar and claimed that the days of the present government are numbered. "The people are fed up with the corruption in Bihar and they want to get rid of Nitish Kumar-led government," he said at a public meeting. It is only after sensing the public mood and...
12:55 AM, Jul 08, 2012
RJD chief Lalu Prasad said that the President of India should be unanimously elected. ...
06:46 PM, Jun 15, 2012
Patna: RJD supremo Lalu Prasad on Sunday opposed the Bihar government's proposal to take legal action against those holding demonstrations against the state and said the ruling JD(U) was moving towards dictatorship. "The Nitish Kumar government is moving towards dictatorship and it will soon collapse," he said. Accusing the chief minister of trying to gag people's voice, Prasad said, "Kumar is trying to enact a black law to prevent people...
01:20 AM, May 28, 2012
New Delhi: With the Indian Premier League hit by controversies, RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav on Friday demanded that the tournament should be closed down. "IPL should be closed," he told reporters outside Parliament House when asked to react on the spat between Shahrukh Khan and Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) officials and other controversies surrounding the game. On the Shahrukh Khan episode, he alleged that the policemen, who were present...
07:25 PM, May 18, 2012
New Delhi: RJD chief Lalu Prasad has slammed Bihar Chief Minister for his double speak after Nitsh Kumar shook hands with his Gujarat counterpart Narendra Modi at the NCTC meet in the national capital on Saturday. "Nitish didn't allow Narendra Modi into Bihar. Then Modi didn't allow him in Surat during Bihar Diwas. Now they are shaking hands?," Lalu said. "Kumar's secular credentials have come under scrutiny once again after...
11:10 AM, May 06, 2012
New Delhi: Parliamentarians across party lines have once again united in the face of criticism and this time it is yoga guru and anti-corruption activist Baba Ramdev who has earned their wrath for calling the members of Parliament corrupt and characterless. He had said, "There are some politicians who are good. But some others are corrupt and have no character." Reacting to the comments of Ramdev, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD)...
12:16 PM, May 02, 2012
Patna: RJD supremo Lalu Prasad on Saturday said Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and his Bihar counterpart Nitish Kumar are like "cousins" on communal issues. "Both Modi and Kumar are like cousin brothers in relation to communal matters," Lalu Prasad said. He made this sarcastic remark when his attention was drawn to media reports suggesting that the international Time magazine report, under compilation now, will be presenting Modi and Lalu...
11:38 PM, Apr 07, 2012
Patna: A designated CBI court on Monday began the trial in the multi-crore fodder scam against 33 accused including former Chief Ministers Lalu Prasad and Jagannath Mishra in Patna. As the trial began before judge BK Srivastava, CBI produced two witnesses Prithvi Raj Gaud and Mahesh Prasad who had sanctioned and issued permission letters for prosecution of some of the accused in fodder scam cases related to withdrawal of crores...
09:40 PM, Apr 02, 2012
RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav on Tuesday criticised Army Chief General VK Singh for creating unnecessary controversy. ...
01:39 PM, Mar 28, 2012
New Delhi: Former railway minister Lalu Prasad Yadav on Wednesday said that the fare hike proposed in the rail budget by Union Minister Dinesh Trivedi would be a big burden on the passengers. Dismissing the popular belief that the fare hike would bring the money needed, the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader said that the step not be able to bail out the Indian Railways. When asked about Trinamool Congress...
06:36 PM, Mar 14, 2012
RJD chief Laloo Prasad Yadav has dismissed the talks of possible mid-term polls as speculation. ...
04:01 PM, Mar 12, 2012
New Delhi: RJD MP Rajniti Prasad on Sunday rubbished BJP's allegation that Lalu Prasad had "orchestrated" his action of tearing the Lokpal Bill in Rajya Sabha, saying his party chief had not tutored him to do so. "Laluji had not tutored me to take any such action (tearing the Lokpal Bill)," he said. "There was no ring master behind my action...Whatever I did was an outcome of my emotional outbursts...
08:53 AM, Jan 01, 2012
Patna: BJP on Saturday charged RJD chief Lalu Prasad with playing a "villainous" role at the behest of Congress to ensure that the Lokpal Bill was not passed in the Rajya Sabha. "Laluji plays a villainous role in the script written by Congress to ensure that the Bill was not passed in the Rajya Sabha," BJP spokesman Ravi Shankar Prasad told. BJP was ready for debate on the issue even...
06:34 PM, Dec 31, 2011
I am opposed to provisions of Lokpal Bill which are against minorities, RJD Chief Lalu Prasad Yadav said. ...
08:03 PM, Dec 30, 2011
