Patna, July 11: Senior BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi today used a cricket analogy to express hope that the RJD would heed to ally JDU's demand for a point-wise reply to allegations against Lalu Prasad and family.

"Now the ball is in the RJD court and let's see whether Tejashwi Yadav, who was seen playing cricket with kids today, would get hit-wicket or hit a six," Modi said at a media interaction after the JDU news conference on the party's state executive committee meeting.

While chief minister Nitish Kumar was at his party meeting, Tejashwi - whose name has appeared in the CBI FIR in the land-for-hotel case - was few metres away playing cricket with his nephews, sister Rohini's sons.

The JDU has maintained those facing corruption charges should come out with a point-wise reply on the allegations levelled, and the BJP chose it to express hope that the party would not set an indefinite deadline for the RJD to clear its stand.

Modi reminded the JDU that the land-for-hotel case against Tejashwi and his family had been lodged by the CBI on the same ground raised by senior leaders in the party before then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in August 2008.

"Sharad Yadav, Lalan Singh and Shivanand Tiwari of the JDU and Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi of our party were part of the NDA delegation that had called on then PM in 2008 and apart from other issues, the delegation had raised the issue of the three-acre land which had been transferred to the company of RJD leader Prem Gupta in lieu of the hotel lease given to the Kochhar brothers," Modi said.

The CBI FIR based on which raids were conducted on the residences of Lalu and his family mentions the land deal.

Dismissing pleas that an FIR cannot be construed as something conclusive for seeking Tejashwi's removal, Modi said the CBI lodged the FIR only after being satisfied prima facie with the evidences. He also went on to use an old statement of Nitish on the fodder scam in which Lalu was accused and now convicted in one of the cases - "Lalu Prasad should quit until proven innocent" - to buttress his demand for Tejashwi's removal from the Bihar ministry. Modi also rubbished RJD's logic of citing Uma Bharti's case in which she has been charge-sheeted (in the Babri Masjid demolition case) but is still in the Union cabinet.

But the BJP leader said his party was in no hurry so far as the fate of the Grand Alliance was concerned. "We cannot do much if it crumbles under the weight of corruption," he said, concluding his interaction with the demand for RJD to come out with its stand on corruption within four to five days although the party, he maintained, has never done so in the past.

"During the days of the fodder scam, Lalu ji, while replying to a query about the possibility of quitting his post on moral grounds, had said he had heard of football ground and hockey ground but never moral ground," Modi said.