Tej Pratap sits on dharna over "slight", ends protest after Lalu assuages son

Patna | Sunday | 24th October, 2021

Summary:

Patna, Oct 24 (PTI) RJD president Lalu Prasad’s elder son Tej Pratap Yadav on Sunday staged a sit-in outside his residence, minutes after he accused his detractors of preventing him from spending time with his father whom he had received at the airport.

The mercurial RJD MLA was, however, assuaged when Prasad came to his house along with wife Rabri Devi.

Tej Pratap washed the feet of his father, who remained seated in the car before driving back.

Talking to reporters afterwards, Yadav said, "Look how I had decorated my house to welcome my father who had been away from me for long because of cases he has been framed in by his feudal detractors." Earlier, Yadav had thrown a fit outside the residence of his mother Rabri Devi when he was stopped from entering her bungalow at 10, Circular Road, where Prasad is putting up upon return to the city after three years.

Yadav returned to his house, a few hundred metres from his mother"s bungalow, and sat on a dharna along with supporters who carried flags of the “Chhatra Janshakti Parishad” he has floated.

“I am very unhappy.