Patna,(BiharTimes): While RJD chief Lalu Prasad on Tuesday saw no wrong in any such meeting in jail his elder son and health minister Tej Pratap holds entirely different view.“Nindanya hai aur gaye to photo nahin kinchna chaiye,”(It is condemnable. And if the minister had gone there what was the need for getting photographed),” he said on Wednesday.

On the other hand former chief minister Rabri Devi strongly defended Abdul Ghafoor by citing a number of such examples involving BJP leaders. She was clearly hinting at Pappu Yadav’s meeting prime minister Narendra Modi and getting Y-category protection just before the last year’s Assembly election. Younger son and deputy chief minister Tejaswi Prasad Yadav too defended the ministerial colleague.

While JD(U) is maintaining silence the minorities’ welfare minister Abdul Ghafoor said that “I went there but I have not taken my mobile and I do not know who took photograph,” he said. The minister said that he was in Siwan on a private visit and was putting up at an official bungalow near jail. He took due permission from jail authorities before meeting Shahabuddin.