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Lalu Prasad [1] (born 11 June 1948 [a]) is an Indian politician and president of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD). [2] [3] [4] He is a former Chief Minister of Bihar (1990-1997), a former Railway Minister of India (2004-2009), and a former Member of Parliament (MP) of the Lok Sabha [5] & Rajya Sabha.
Lalu Prasad Yadav, on the left, is the highest-profile person convicted in the fodder scam. The Fodder Scam was a corruption scandal that involved the embezzlement of about ₹ 940 crore (equivalent to ₹ 48 billion or US$560 million in 2023) from the government treasury of the north Indian state of Bihar . [ 1 ]
On 3 July 1999 two bodies of a boy and a girl were discovered in a semi nude state inside a car in a parking near quarter number 12, Frazer Road, Patna.This quarter belonged to Sadhu Yadav, the brother-in-law of Lalu Prasad Yadav and a Member Of Legislative Assembly for the ruling party RJD.The bodies were identified as Shilpi and Gautam.
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In the early 1990s, Shahabuddin came into the political limelight, joining the Janata Dal (JD) youth wing under Lalu Prasad Yadav.He won the 1990 and 1995 elections to the Vidhan Sabha (state legislative assembly), and was elected to the Lok Sabha in 1996 on the JD ticket, after which he grew in stature.
He was also criticized by opposition in the Shilpi-Gautam Murder case and the death of his daughter Ragini Yadav's friend, Abhishek Mishra, in mysterious circumstances. [35] [36] An investigation in the land-for-jobs scam implicated Tejashwi Yadav and Rabri Devi, Lalu Prasad Yadav's son and wife, as well as in other corruption scandals. [37]
On 17 May 2004, following the victory of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) in the Indian general election, Lalu Prasad Yadav was appointed as Railway Minister. In September 2004, two and a half years after the train burning, Yadav appointed former Supreme Court Justice Umesh Chandra Banerjee to investigate the incident. In January 2005 ...
The sounds of sobbing, prayers and anguish echoed through the departures hall of an airport in southwestern South Korea on Monday as families of the victims aboard a passenger jet that crash ...