Bloody election: Assassination of former RJD leader, Laluputra Tejaswi Yadav charged with murder

Patna, October 4, 2020, Sunday

Bihar's politics is heating up after Lalu Prasad Yadav's former party leader Shakti Singh was shot dead.

Earlier, Shakti Singh had alleged that Lalu Prasad's son Tejaswi had asked for Rs 50 lakh for a ticket and commented on my caste. Shakti Singh had also been the former state secretary of RJD. They broke into Malik's house and fled after firing on him. Shakti Singh was rushed to a hospital where doctors declared him dead.

Thus, the campaign for the Bihar Assembly elections has started to turn bloody. His wife and children were present in the house when the firing took place. Bihar's politics has heated up after family members accused Tejaswi Yadav and Anil Sadhu of murder.

Recently, Shakti Singh made a sensational allegation that when I went to Tejaswi Yadav to seek a ticket to contest the elections, he demanded Rs 50 lakh from me and made racist remarks against me when I refused to pay.