ush at home or someone elseeveral JD(U) leaders are envious of soft-spoken JD(U) MLC Sanjay Gandhi. Queue of cars in front of his official residence on Strand Road is the cause of heartburns. Several ministers’ official residences are near Sanjay’s home. But none of them appear to draw crowds as Sanjay’s house does. Several vehicles are lined up before the gates of Sanjay’s official residence,” said a JD(U) leader. But make no mistake. The rush is not meet Sanjay. People go there to see the JD(U) MP, Ram Chandra Prasad alias RCP. “RCP usually remains inside that house when he is not in Delhi or at 1 Aney Marg,” said another JD(U) leader.tain onopalganj opalganj is the home district of former chief ministers Lalu Prasad and Rabri Devi, who ruled the state for 15 years. It was also the place where Lalu’s two brothers-in-law Subahsh Yadav and Sadhu Yadav called the shots on virtually everything. JD(U) MLA Manjit Kumar Singh made a remark inside the Assembly that during the Lalu-Rabri regime Gopalganj virtually called the shots. The Leader of the Opposition, Abdul Bari Siddiqui, retorted that the importance of Gopalganj had not diminished even in the NDA regime. He alleged that a JD(U) MLA had extorted Rs 55 lakh from a family as ransom money for the release of a kidnapped person. “The importance of Gopalganj remains,” Siddiqui said. “It is unfortunate that Gopalganj is in news for all the wrong reasons. It is just like any other town in Bihar — full of hardworking people,” mourned a citizen of the district, resenting that it was being identified with controversial people.m, Shanti OmJP MLA Jawahar Prasad, known for chanting “Om” in the Assembly, became a victim of his own word the other day. He was greeted with “Om” by all the MLAs. But Prasad refused to bog down before the remark of the Leader of the Opposition Abdul Bari Siddiqui’s that there were a lot of empty cages in Sanjay Gandhi Biological Park and some persons (read Prasad) should be shifted there. “There should be two empty cages in the zoo — one for me and the other for Siddiqui Sahib,” retorted the BJP MLA.odi pill for RJDhe weak show of the RJD inside the Assembly over the alleged rape and murder of a woman in Jamui reminded old-timers of deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi’s form as an opposition leader. “Modiji was a great Leader of the Opposition. Had this incident occurred when he was in the Opposition, he would not have allowed the House to run smoothly and would have had the government fumbling for replies,” said a senior BJP MLA. Of course, the BJP leaders declared that Modiji appeared happier as the deputy chief minister of the state. “But his performance as the deputy chief minister is yet to match his performance as the Leader of the Opposition,” the BJP MLA said.