The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) launched a fierce assault on RJD chief Lalu Prasad and his family on Monday, October 13, 2025, after a Delhi court formally charged them in the high-profile IRCTC scam.
During a press conference, senior BJP leader and former Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad issued a strong warning to the people of Bihar. He urged them “never to be swayed by Tejashwi Yadav’s promises,” arguing that “jobs will not materialize, and your land will be confiscated instead.” Prasad questioned Tejashwi Yadav’s credibility, asking, “Mr. Tejashwi, who pledged to transform Bihar during the State Assembly polls, is himself facing accusations of fraud. With such a reputation and serious charges, how can he possibly bring change to Bihar?”
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) alleges that while serving as Railway Minister, Lalu Prasad favored certain hotel owners by leasing two railway hotels. In return for these alleged favors, a valuable plot of land in Patna was reportedly sold to a company controlled by a close associate. The CBI further claims that Lalu Prasad’s family later acquired both the company and the land at an incredibly low price.
A History of ‘Massive Plunder’
Highlighting the numerous allegations against Lalu Prasad and his family, the BJP leader asserted that the CBI’s chargesheet revealed their “extensive plundering.”
“If Lalu Prasad’s entire political career were to be encapsulated in three phrases, they would be: consuming fodder, drinking coal-tar, and manipulating government assets and tenders to seize land,” Prasad stated. “A fourth model, ‘Jameen Do, Naukri Lo’ (Give Land, Take Job), must now be added. The most alarming aspect of this scheme is that all its benefits were exclusively for the family, with no one else receiving anything.”
Prasad emphasized that many victims of the ‘Give Land, Take Job’ scheme were impoverished individuals whose land was taken in exchange for jobs. He condemned this as the “so-called social justice of the Congress and the RJD,” where the rights of the poor were exploited, and corruption and nepotism were openly promoted in their name.
Ravi Shankar Prasad reminded the public that the RJD supremo had already been convicted in the notorious “fodder scam,” with another “coal-tar scam” trial still underway. He also referenced Tejashwi Yadav’s affidavit from the 2020 State Assembly elections, pointing out that between 1993 and 2007, Tejashwi, born in 1990, allegedly acquired nine agricultural land parcels. “Where did these nine plots come from?” Prasad queried.
He further alleged that Ms. Rabri Devi owned three agricultural plots, four non-agricultural plots, one commercial property, and five residential properties, questioning her sources of income.