Patna,(BiharTimes): The national president of the Janata Dal (United) Sharad Yadav on Tuesday defended the son of Bihar chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi, who stayed with a policewoman in a hotel for a night in Gaya. 

Sharad asked: “Don’t you think that even a VIP’s son, be it of the chief minister or anybody else, also have a heart which beats.”

He said relationship between a man and woman based on mutual consent is valid. He asked media to stop prying into the private lives of politicians or their family members adding that he had even defended Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh when his relationship with a woman journalist had become a matter of public debate.

Last week Manjhi’s son, accompanied by a policewoman, had allegedly asked a hotel in Gaya to give them a deluxe suite. The hotel management employees locked the two inside the suite and raised an alarm.

It is upon this that the son coughed up cash to secure his release and that of the policewoman.