Without naming RJD, Nitish Kumar said that he had not turned his back on any of his govt's agenda but found it difficult to work with people who believed in using power for amassing wealth.
The special CBI court of Shiv Pal Singh had on January 6 handed down three-and-a-half years prison term to Lalu in the case pertaining to illegal withdrawal of Rs 89.27 lakh from Deoghar treasury between 1991 and 1994.
The former chief minister requesting for bail before the Special CBI Court in Ranchi, insisted judge Shiv Pal Singh for letting him have the the curd and flattened rice delicacy as part of Makar Sankranti celebrations.
The case relates to alleged fraudulent withdrawal of Rs 35.62 crore from the Chaibasa treasury in the 1990s when Lalu was the chief minister of undivided Bihar.
Lalu, who was till now imprisoned in Ranchi's Birsa Munda Jail, will be transported to Hazaribagh open jail today, where he will reportedly be employed as a gardner.
The special CBI court in Ranchi sentenced Lalu to three-and-a-half years in jail and imposed a fine of Rs 10 lakh on him in the fodder scam case relating to fraudulent withdrawal of Rs 89.27 lakh from the Deoghar Treasury 21 years ago.
Tejashwi Yadav said that the Janata Dal-United (JD-U) leaders must understand their party had actually split, not the RJD.
CBI court judge Shiv Pal Singh, who had convicted Prasad, along with 10 others on December 23, also imposed a fine of Rs 10 lakh on him for two cases in the scam.
The assertions were made by Shivanand Tiwary and senior party leader Jagdanand Singh.
On December 23 last year, the court had convicted Lalu and 15 others in a case related to the fraudulent withdrawal of Rs 84.5 lakh from the Deoghar district treasury in Bihar between 1990 and 1994.
JD(U) spokesman and MLC Neeraj Kumar countered Choudhary's assertions, saying, "Prasad has been held guilty in a two-decades-old corruption case by a court of law. Where is the question of vendetta?"
Lalu along with 15 others were convicted by the special CBI court for fraudulent withdrawal of Rs 89 lakh from the Deoghar treasury between 1991 and 1994.
The court convicted 15 others in this case while acquitted six including another former chief minister Jagannath Mishra.
In a series of tweets, Lalu said that whenever anyone from the lower hierarchy challenged the unjust order, they were deliberately punished.
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