An FIR has been lodged against Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) president Lalu Prasad for allegedly making casteist remarks while campaigning for his son Tejaswi Yadav in Raghopur two days ago. The FIR was filed as the Election Commission (EC) prima facie found them violative of the model of conduct for the Assembly elections in Bihar.
The FIR was registered with Ganga bridge police station in Vaishali district against Prasad by Circle Officer Raghopur <g data-gr-id="14">Neeranjan</g> Kumar, said Vaishali SP Rakesh Kumar.
The Circle Officer, who was deputed as magistrate during the election meeting of the RJD chief last Sunday for his son Tejaswi Yadav in Raghopur, was ordered by District Magistrate of Vaishali Rachna Patil to get a case registered in the matter.
The RJD supremo had described the assembly elections as a direct fight between “the backward castes and forward castes” and gave a call to Yadavs and other backward castes to rally behind the secular alliance to defeat BJP-led NDA.
Additional Chief Election Officer R Lakshamanan said that the case was registered against the RJD chief on the basis of video footage of his utterances at a political meeting in Raghopur on Sunday.