Patna: The day Tejashwi Prasad Yadav launched the Samvidhan Bachao Nyay Yatra from Katihar, the ruling JDU asked the RJD leader to detail the work done in the district during his parents' 15-year-rule.

JDU MLC Neeraj Kumar wrote a letter to Tejashwi and shared data of development work being undertaken in the Katihar region by chief minister Nitish Kumar. Taunting the RJD boss's son as "Daagi Yuvraj (tainted prince)", Neeraj said the party did not stand anywhere in terms of the work done by Nitish in comparison to the chief ministerial tenures of Tejashwi's parents Lalu Prasad and Rabri Devi.

"Yesterday I had asked Tejashwi to give details of work done in the districts, but so far he has not given anything. In terms of work carried out by Nitish ji, the RJD does not stand anywhere. So it is my duty to give the details of Nitishji's work as the RJD has failed to give its own," Neeraj, who is also a JDU spokesperson, wrote in the letter.

He slammed Tejashwi saying that the JDU hoped he would also give details of his benami (unaccounted) property in the public meetings he would address on the yatra.

Sharing the data of work done by the JDU, Neeraj went on to say it was a mix of reports presented by the governments at the state and the Centre on different occasions. Crime data, he said, has been taken from the National Crime Records Bureau.

"In comparison to the 15 years' rule of RJD, Nitish ji has done excellent work in Katihar district in the last 12 years. Cases of murder in Katihar have come down to 23 per cent, dacoity to 66.5 per cent, kidnapping for ransom to 54 per cent, and dacoity on roads to 46 per cent," Neeraj wrote.

He claimed in Katihar rural areas 2264km of roads had been sanctioned of which 1,745km has been constructed and 518km is under way.

The spokesperson mocked the RJD saying that in Lalu and Rabri's time, roads were a topic of national discussion for its pathetic condition.

"The RJD would just grab land but we worked. There were no boundary walls around graveyards in RJD's time, Nitish ji constructed boundary walls at over 112 graveyards. The RJD had Charwaha Vidyalayas but Nitishji focused on opening new educational institutions," Neeraj said. "In 2005-06 (when Nitish came to power for the first time) there were 1,281 schools and 5,180 teachers in Katihar. In 2015-16, the number has gone up to 2,168 schools and 14,509 teachers."