Whodunit hunt in RJD

The atmosphere inside 10 Circular Road is one of suspicion over how BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi was getting information and documents related to property belonging to RJD chief Lalu Prasad's family, RJD leaders say. "Everybody there is asking who is doing it," remarked an RJD leader pointing out everybody was wondering how. "Agreed that one can find a lot of these documents on the Internet, but someone has to pinpoint the companies where the names figure and apart from that Modi has in his possession documents of lands acquired by the family." It was the work of an insider, the RJD leader insisted.

Initially, needle of suspicion pointed towards JDU minister Lalan Singh who had raised the matter in 2008 as a political opponent. "Then there was suspicion that the documents may have been leaked by Lalu's estranged brother-in-law Subhash Yadav. But Subhash has been out of the inner circle for quite some time," said the RJD leader insisting that Modi has made it worse by declaring that he got information and documents from insiders.

Chopper chagrin

Chief minister Nitish Kumar's Motihari visit last month to undertake a 7km padyatra is still creating buzz in political circles, especially in the RJD and the Congress. "The CM left for Motihari with officials in two choppers. Ministers including deputy chief minister Tejashwi Yadav and education minister Ashok Choudhary had to go by road. He could have accommodated at least these two ministers in the chopper," remarked an RJD leader, insisting that it just reflected that "Nitishji trusts officials more than politicians".