After Lalu Yadav's Security Downgraded, Son Threatens PM Modi

Yesterday, Lalu Yadav was removed from the group of VVIPS who are given Z+ security, the maximum protection offered to politicians.

All India | Reported by , Edited by | Updated: November 27, 2017 14:22 IST
After Lalu Yadav's Security Downgraded, Son Threatens PM Modi

Tej Pratap is apparently trying to reinvent - as an industrious threat-maker.

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Highlights

  1. Lalu Yadav's security downgraded over weekend
  2. Will "scalp" PM Modi, says Lalu Yadav's son, Tej Pratap
  3. Last week, he threatened to beat up Deputy Chief Minister
Tej Pratap Yadav, the older son of Bihar leader Lalu Yadav, has mined a new low today by threatening to "scalp" Prime Minister Narendra Modi for downgrading his father's security.

Tej Pratap, who is 30 and whose stint as a Bihar minister was undistinguished, is apparently trying to reinvent - as an industrious threat-maker.

Last week, after being invited to the wedding of Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Modi's son, Tej Pratap said that if he were to grace the occasion, it would be to assault Sushil Modi, who is a senior BJP leader, and "expose him".

Sushil Modi responded by relocating the wedding for "security reasons." Apparently satisfied with his impact, Tej Pratap generously said the BJP leader should proceed with his plans "without fear".

Yesterday, Lalu Yadav was removed from the group of VVIPS who are given Z+ security, the maximum protection offered to politicians. The Z+ cover is viewed often as a status symbol.
 
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Lalu Yadav's Z+ security was removed yesterday.

Tej Pratap and his brother Tejashwi Yadav were given top billing in the govenrmnt of Nitish Kumar till July because their father's party had the maximum seats in the Bihar legislature. But after the Yadavs were named in a corruption case by the CBI, they were dumped by Nitish Kumar as allies, along with the Congress; he traded them in for the BJP, prompting invective from the Yadav clan that, months later, remains unabated.

Lalu Yadav's wife, Rabri Devi, earlier this month warned that there is no paucity of people in Bihar who are willing to assault the PM - her assertion was in response to a senior BJP leader demanding that criticism of the PM should be met with "hands being chopped off".