Lalu Yadav offered Jaitley to ‘topple Nitish govt’ in exchange of blocking CBI action: Sushil Modi

Apr 17, 2019

Patna (Bihar), Apr 17 (ANI): Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Modi on Wednesday claimed that RJD patriarch Lalu Yadav offered Finance Minister Arun Jaitley of ‘toppling Nitish Kumar government’ in exchange of the latter blocking CBI action against him, but Jaitley refused to interfere in CBI’s functioning as it is an autonomous institution. “Lalu Prasad Yadav and Prem Gupta (his messenger), both met Arun Jaitley and offered to topple Nitish Kumar government. Arun Jaitley clearly said that we can't interfere in CBI's functioning as it is an autonomous institution,” Sushil Modi said at a press conference in Patna.