PATNA: Taking a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent statement regarding his ignorance about actual amount of black money stashed in foreign banks, RJD president Lalu Prasad suggested yoga guru Baba Ramdev to pass on the data to the government to ensure early return of the Indian money.

“Baba Ramdev! Prime Minister is not aware about the actual figures of black money. You had been telling people the figures of black money before the Lok Sabha elections. Please hand over the same data to Modi at the earliest to bring back the money,” Lalu has said on Twitter.

Lalu, who is recuperating in New Delhi after cardiac surgery on August 27, also questioned Ramdev’s silence on the issue. “Baba, you had been moving here and there with the data of black money and had also been giving sermons to public on bringing it back. Can you now ask your ‘favourite’ PM to bring back the black money? Baba, why are you silent now?” RJD chief has said in his subsequent tweet.

On Sunday, Modi in his radio address ‘Mann Ki Baat’, said the government didn’t know how much money had really gone abroad. Nobody, neither his government nor the previous one, knew exactly how much black money was stashed abroad... but, he was committed to getting every single penny back, Modi had said.

In a previous tweet, the RJD president also claimed that it was he who had first raised the issue of black money in Parliament, much before it was highlighted by Baba Ramdev and Anna Hazare. Lalu has also appended with his tweet a report published in a national English daily to substantiate his claim.

