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“There’s Nothing,” Says Nitish Kumar As He Defends Lalu Yadav In CBI Case

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Nitish Kumar also suggested that BJP is going after the Rashtriya Janata Dal patriarch because their parties have joined forces against them

Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar defends former Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav after CBI filed a chargesheet in a job scam case. He said that he has seen everything and there is nothing in the case. Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) filed a chargesheet in the alleged job scam during Yadav’s tenure as Railway Minister in the Congress-led UPA government over 10 years ago.

Nitish Kumar also suggested that BJP is going after the Rashtriya Janata Dal patriarch because their parties have joined forces against them.

Speaking with the reporters he said, “What happened 5 years ago? We had parted ways (with RJD). Nothing happened (in this case). I’ve seen everything, there’s nothing there. Now that we are not with the BJP, they have started it again. They do whatever they feel like, what can we do?”

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On Friday, CBI filed a chargesheet against 16 people, including Lalu Yadav and his wife Rabri Devi in the job scam case. Both are former Chief Ministers and their son is the Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar.

On May 18, a case was filed against Yadavs and 12 people who got jobs in the railways. Most of them are on bail.

Lalu Prasad Yadav is accused of getting over 1 lakh square feet of land belonging to job aspirants’ families in exchange for offering them jobs.

RJD is repeatedly stating that this and all other cases against the Yadav family is a political stratagem of the BJP-led central government.

Lalu Yadav’s son Tejaswi Yadav became Deputy to CM of Bihar Nitish Kumar after the latter dumped the BJP to revive the JDU’s alliance with RJD.

Lalu Yadav’s son Tejashwi Yadav is an important ally in the Nitish government and the Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar. During the previous coalition government, Nitish Kumar broke ties with the RJD and formed the government with the BJP in the year 2017 after the Lalu family was accused of giving jobs in exchange for land.

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Rahul Gandhi Will Talk To Villagers When Bharat Jodo Yatra Resumes From Tumakuru

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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will hold an interaction with the masses as the Bharat Jodo Yatra resumed from Mayasandra, Tumakuru in Karnataka on Saturday.

Tumakuru:  Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will hold an interaction with the masses as the Bharat Jodo Yatra resumed from Mayasandra, Tumakuru in Karnataka on Saturday.

This will be his third press interaction during the march and has been scheduled for 1 pm today. The yatra is in its Karnataka leg and marked its 31st day today.

The march began at around 6. 40 am, informed veteran Congress leader Jairam Ramesh.

“Day 31 of #BharatJodoYatra started at around 640am. Today @RahulGandhi will be having his third press interaction so far during the Yatra at Turuvekere at 1 pm. We have entered Tumkur district now,” tweeted Congress leader Jairam Ramesh.

Earlier on October 7, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi claimed that the teachers raised the issue of the Kannada language and culture being “under attack”.

He said that “our education system is under systematic attack from adverse ideological forces and that attack has reached now our curriculum.”

The Former Congress President said that he interacted with the teachers and students, who told him their concerns.

“I spoke to the teachers and students. The teachers said why government schools are being neglected.

Why our culture, our ‘Kannada’ language is under attack? Why the glory of the history of Karnataka is being erased from textbooks Why our culture and history is being attacked and damaged?” Rahul said.

He said that the new NEP 2020 had been specially designed to undo everything that has been done in the past 75 years. He continued to add that Communalisation and Centralisation and Commercialisation were the only agendas behind these monumental changes effected by the State and Central Governments.

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Wayanad MP suspected that there were many deliberate & designed efforts to destabilize the education system and subvert the Constitution through these drastic measures.

The MP from Wayanad is currently leading Bharat Jodo Yatra– the 3,500-km march from Kanyakumari to Kashmir, covering as many as 12 states. The Yatra started from Kanyakumari and will end in Kashmir the next year by covering 25 km every day.

According to Congress, the ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ is being held to combat the divisive politics of the BJP-led Centre and to awaken the people of the country to the dangers of economic inequalities, social polarisation and political centralisation.

Notably, all the party MPs, leaders and workers along with Rahul Gandhi are staying in containers. Sleeping beds, toilets and ACs are also installed in some of the containers. During the journey, the temperature and environment will differ in many areas.

The Congress suffered a debacle in the assembly polls held earlier this year and the Yatra is seen as an attempt to rally the party rank and file for the upcoming electoral battles.

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