Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday walked down to 10, Circular Road, to meet Lalu Prasad Yadav as the RJD president arrived in Patna from Delhi after undergoing treatment at AIIMS. Nitish Kumar was accompanied by Cabinet colleague and close aide Vijay Kumar Chaudhary.
The Bihar CM was received by Tejashwi Prasad Yadav. Kumar warmly greeted Prasad and presented the RJD supremo a bundle of flowers, PTI reported. The former Bihar CM accepted them with one arm bandaged which was due to a shoulder fracture he suffered last month.
Nitish Kumar had also visited a private hospital in Patna last month where Prasad had been admitted following the fracture after he fell down the stairs at his home. He was then taken to Delhi AIIMs in an air ambulance. After being discharged, Lalu Prasad Yadav recuperated at the home of his daughter Misa Bharti in Delhi.
Speaking to reporters while departing from Delhi, Lalu Prasad called the BJP government at the Centre "dictatorial" and vowed to oust Prime Minister Narendra Modi from power in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
The comments are his first since the Grand Alliance government came to power in Bihar after Nitish Kumar severed ties with BJP and joined hands with Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), the Congress and other parties.
"We have to oust the dictatorial government (at the Centre). Modi ko hatana hai," he told reporters.
Asked about BJP leader Sushil Modi's allegations of an arrest warrant pending against Bihar Law Minister Kartikey Singh in a 2014 kidnapping case, Lalu Prasad said, "Jhoontha aadmi hai (He is a liar). It's all wrong."
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When asked by reporters to respond to the matter, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said "mujhe nahi pata" (I have no information).
Sources close to BJP told news agency PTI that Singh was supposed to surrender at a court on August 16, but, instead, he showed up at the Raj Bhavan to take oath as a minister.