Patna, July 18: Senior BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi today added more fuel to the embers in the Grand Alliance government by releasing a list of 26 properties that he said deputy chief minister tejashwi Yadav owns.

"I challenge Tejashwi to deny what I have revealed so far," said Modi, who has been making a series of allegations of benami property Tejashwi's family.

Of the 26 properties that Modi listed today, 13 are registered in the name of Tejashwi while the remaining ones went to the deputy chief minister through companies in which he has stakes, Modi alleged. The Telegraph has not verified Modi's claims that the properties belong to Tejashwi.

The BJP leader rubbished the deputy chief minister's defence - that the charges against him date back to a time he was not even an adult.

"Tejashwi was a minor when leaders like Raghunath Jha and Kanti Singh were gifting him property but he never objected to the gifts being made to him. Even his family didn't oppose it," Modi said, adding that two plots of land were registered in the name of Tejashwi in 1993 - when he was just about four years old.

The BJP leader claimed that Tejashwi owed an explanation on why most of the properties registered in his name were transferred to him when his father Lalu Prasad was the railway minister.

"What was your source of income or that of your parents which was used to create the assets?" Modi asked. "The ownership of Delight Marketing was transferred to Tejashwi and Rabri Devi between 2010 and 2014 and at that time Tejashwi was an adult. Similarly when 3 acres of land of Delight Marketing was being transferred to him in 2013-14, Tejashwi was an adult."

Supporting the stand taken by the JDU that Tejashwi should come out with a point-by-point reply on the charges against him, Modi said one should not forget that the CBI lodges an FIR only after being prima facie satisfied about the charges against any person.

Modi demanded that Tejashwi's reply to the charges should be a public one and not in a closed room - a reference to the Nitish-Tejashwi meet this evening.

Modi also demanded that Nitish should dismiss Tejashwi if the deputy CM does not resign on his own.

"Enough of shadow-boxing has been done between JDU and RJD on the Tejashwi issue and now action should be taken as people are watching the developments very closely," the BJP leader added.

He also claimed that Tejashwi's defiance was a kind of challenge to the authority of the chief minister and it was sending a wrong message to the people of the state.

RJD leaders refused to comment on the fresh charges.