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As expected the moment Nitish Kumar decided to party ways with the BJP, The Central Bureau of Investigation started a search operation at the premises of several RJD leaders in Bihar in connection with the alleged land-for-jobs scam that took place during the tenure of Lalu Prasad Yadav as Union railway minister, officials said.
The search operation comes on a day when Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, who parted ways with the Bharatiya Janata Party to ally with the Rashtriya Janata Dal, is set to face a trust vote in the state assembly.
The search operation is being carried out at the premises of several senior leaders of the RJD including Sunil Singh, Ashfaque Karim, Faiyaz Ahmad and former MLC Subodh Rai, they said.
The CBI has named the RJD supremo, his wife Rabri Devi, and daughters Misa Bharti and Hema Yadav, in addition to 12 people who were given jobs in Railway zones of Mumbai, Jabalpur, Kolkata, Jaipur, Hajipur in 2008-09 in the case, the officials said.
The central agency had registered a preliminary enquiry on September 23, 2021 related to the land-for-jobs scam in Railways.
The candidates were appointed as substitutes in group D positions within three days of applying in ‘undue haste’ by Railway officials and were later regularised ‘in lieu thereof the individuals themselves or their family members transferred their land’, according to the agency.
The transfers were made through three sale deeds in the name of Rabri Devi and one in the name of Misa Bharti and two gift deeds in the name of Hema Yadav, the agency alleged.
Useless to say that it’s raid by ED or IT or CBI, it’s a raid by BJP. They work under BJP now, their offices run with BJP script. Today is Floor Test (in Bihar Assembly) & what’s happening here? It has become predictable, RJD RS MP Manoj Jha told ANI on CBI raids
Reacting to the CBI raids, Ex-Bihar CM & RJD leader Rabri Devi told ANI , “They’re scared. A new Govt has been formed under leadership of Nitish Kumar. All parties, except BJP, with us. We’ve the majority. CBI (raid) just to scare us. We won’t be scared. This isn’t happening for the first time.”
