On 30 September 2013 a CBI court at Ranchi convicted Lalu Prasad Yadav in Fodder case and that the end of the road for the RJD supremo. Lalu Prasad Yadav now faces the ignominy of facing jail and also being disqualified from Parliament, after the Supreme Court order on convicted lawmakers.
There is no doubt that Lalu
Prasad Yadav was the silver lining
in the Indian parliament specially whenever there was a crisis. I also remember
him as one of the best Railway Minister
we ever had. However, tenure as Bihar chief Minister himself or by proxy through his wife, he is sole
responsible for the state of Bihar as it is now. It is good to see that finally
law catching up with the politicians and the disqualification is the best thing
can be handed over these insatiable lots
of politicians.
He was a maverick, a jester, a crowd puller par excellence. Lalu
Prasad turned Bihar's politics — and economic health — upside down as he
catapulted from a student leader of the 1970s to be one of India's best-known
politicians before his downfall Monday.
Lalu
Prasad Yadav
Lalu Prasad Yadav was born in Bihar. He holds a degree in Bachelor of Laws and a master's in Political science from B.
N. College, under Patna University.
Yadav married Rabri Devi on 1
June 1973.They have seven daughters and two sons.
Yadav formed the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) in 5
July 1997, after breaking away from the Janata Dal. According to Limca Book of Records, he is the
longest serving president of an Indian Political Party.
Lalu Prasad Yadav has twice
served as the Chief Minister of Bihar,
first for a term of five years, from 10 March 1990 to 28 March 1995 and then
for a term of three years from 4 April 1995 to 25 July 1997. Lalu Prasad Yadav also
served as the Railway Minister of India from 2004 to 2009. He is member of
Parliament of India from Chhapra and National President of RJD.
Yadav has been charged in
several corruption cases, the most
infamous being the "Fodder Scam" in which about Rs.37 crore were siphoned off from the animal husbandry department.
Laloo Yadav has been an accused in many of the 63-odd cases filed. He has been remanded to custody on multiple
occasions because of the number of cases.
The career of one of India's
most colourful politicians, who
became a case study for students at
Harvard University after he turned around the fortunes of the gigantic
Indian Railways, is all but over with an Indian court finding him guilty of
embezzling state funds.
As I am finishing the blog the
news is out that the CBI court in Ranchi sentenced RJD chief Lalu Prasad to 5 years' imprisonment in a
17-year-old fodder scam.
!!!Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the
person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching
satisfaction. - Erich Fromm!!
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