When Laloo was left speechless

Only Indian politicians can be so brazen. A senior member of the Lok Sabha of the Rashtriya Janata Dal, Raghunath Jha, was heard abusing his party leader and Railway Minister Lalloo Yadav while the latter, for once, sat tongue-tied. The reason for Jha's anger? Apparently, the previous day five companions of the RJD member from Bettiah in Bihar were caught traveling without ticket by a special checking squad of the railways and were duly penalised. Jha was angry with Laloo for not ensuring that 'at least members of your own party are not set upon by the railway inspectors and humiliated openly.'When Laloo tried to defend himself, Jha raised his voice even louder, shouting angrily at the Railway Minister for all in the central hall of parliament to hear. He accused Yadav of sending the ticket inspectors to go after him continuing in that vein for a long time, while Laloo sat speechless, he claimed that Yadav was a cipher without his support and would become cipher if he (Jha) were to turn against him... A number of RJD MPs including, of course, the Minister for Company Affairs, Prem Gupta, witnessed the one-way tirade of abuse and invective unleashed by Jha against his leader.