Shatrughan Sinha thanks lawyers for providing legal support to Lalu Prasad
Patna, Mar 26 (IBNS): The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) may accuse former Bihar Chief Minister and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad of corruption, but its MP Shatrughan Sinha has thanked all who are providing legal support to Lalu, who has been sentenced to an imprisonment of more than a decade.
Sinha took to Twitter to congratulate several lawyers, who are also political leaders in respective parties, for providing support to the RJD supremo.
His tweet reads, "I congratulate eminent lawyers viz Abhishek Manu Singhvi, Kapil Sibal, Ram Jethmalani & Gopal Subramanium for providing rock solid support to LaluJi with expert guidance and legal backups. My salute to them for coming out so openly & boldly, that too at the time of real need."
While Singhvi and Sibal are senior Congress leaders, Ram Jethmalani is an RJD leader.
Subramanium is an independent lawyer.
Lalu has been convicted in all four fodder scam cases.
He has been pronounced a jail term of 14 years in total in the fourth fodder scam case last week.
Actor-turned politician Sinha has also referred to the four lawyers as friends of Lalu.
He said in a follow up tweet, " .....thus proving the maxim “A Friend in need is a friend indeed”. God bless all! Jai Bihar!"
Making the BJP uncomfortable, Sinha has come out openly against his own party multiple times.
In one of the recent examples, Sinha had lashed out at the saffron party over the twin by-poll defeats in Uttar Pradesh.
The 72-year old MP held the BJP's "arrogance" and "over-confidence" as the sole reasons behind the defeats of the ruling party.
Image: Image: twitter.com/ShatruganSinha
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