Gadchiroli: The police have registered and FIR against Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader and former Bihar deputy chief minister Tejashwi Yadav in Gadchiroli, Maharashtra, over an alleged objectionable post and defamatory content against Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the social media platform X.
The FIR was registered at the Gadchiroli police station on the basis of a complaint lodged by BJP MlA Milind Ramji Narote on Friday. The FIR has been registered under Sections 196(1)(a)(b), 356(2)(3), 352, 353(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).
According to the FIR copy, the alleged objectionable posts were made against Prime Minister Modi’s visit to Gaya Ji district of Bihar on Friday, where he had inaugurated and laid the foundation stone of various development projects worth Rs 13000 crores for the state.
Yadav had made two posts in Hindi ahead of the PM’s visit to Gaya Ji. In one of them, he had said: “Narendra Modi Ji will set up a shop to peddle lies at Gaya Ji today. He will pile up lies as high as the Himalayas. But the people of Bihar will see through them.”
In his second post, he had mocked Modi through a parody song, questioning why the names of genuine voters have been removed from the electoral rolls in Bihar. The RJD has been opposing the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls by the Election Commission of India in Bihar ahead of the Assembly elections in the state.
During his latest visit to Bihar, the PM had flagged off two trains – the Amrit Bharat Express between Gaya and Delhi, which will enhance passenger convenience with modern facilities, comfort, and safety, and the Buddhist Circuit Train between Vaishali and Koderma, to boost tourism and religious travel across key Buddhist sites in the region.
Modi had also held a roadshow in Gaya Ji, with Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar and deputy chief ministers Samrat Chaudhary and Vijay Sinha by his side. During a public meeting, he had launched a scathing attack on the opposition, criticising the rule of previous governments of the RJD and the Congress in the State.
The Prime Minister had called the RJD’s governance in Bihar as “an era of darkness.”