Patna: Lalu Prasad Yadav’s elder son Tej Pratap Yadav is now in the eye of a fresh storm over rumours that he has a ‘love child’ with the woman he was earlier accused of having an affair with.
Tej Pratap was thrown out of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) last year after a purported Facebook post of his, in which he had spoken about his love for the woman.
The former MLA had then claimed that it was all a conspiracy and his Facebook account had been hacked.
On Sunday, he again condemned the spread of the fresh set of “fake” rumours linking him to a woman who allegedly gave birth to his child.
He vowed to take legal action against the ‘Jaichands’ responsible for spreading the claims, saying that he came to know about the rumours after he was told that Union minister Jitan Ram Manjhi had “congratulated” him upon the birth of the child.
“I am distraught at rumours on social media that a woman with whom I had been falsely linked several months ago, which resulted in my expulsion from the party, has given birth to my child,” Tej Pratap said, as reported by timesnow.in.
“Recently, I hosted a well-attended feast on the occasion of Makar Sankranti. This has made my detractors wary of the prospects of my party. I will seek legal action against them. I will move the court. I have also sought an appointment with home minister Samrat Choudhary. I beg my detractors to let me live in peace. I know the person with whom the woman is in a relationship and who, I believe, is the father of the child. They are causing mental anguish to me by dragging my name,” he added.
Tej Pratap claimed that the viral social media post, which stated that he had been “in a relationship, for 12 years” with the woman, was also the result of “hacking” of his Facebook profile by “the five Jaichands”.
“There has been some suspense about who the Jaichands I have been speaking about are. Here are the names — Mukesh Raushan, Sanjay Yadav, Shakti Singh Yadav, Rameez and Sunil Singh,” Tej Pratap said.
While Sanjay Yadav is a sitting RJD MP and Sunil Singh an MLC, Shakti Singh Yadav and Mukesh Raushan are former MLAs. Rameez is a close friend of Tejashwi Yadav, the younger sibling of Tej Pratap, who was recently elevated to the post of the party’s national working president.
