PATNA: RJD president Lalu Prasad on Sunday took a jibe at PM Narendra Modi for his failure to check the rising prices of onions. Onions are being sold at Rs 70-80 a kg in most parts of Bihar including the markets of state capital.

Describing Modi as “56-inch Waale’ Lalu also dared the PM to bring back black money stashed abroad if he had guts to do so. “You don’t have capability either to check black-marketing of onions or arrest the hoarders, but you make tall claims about bringing back black money from abroad. ‘Arre, Kahan Hai 56 inch waale’ (Where is the person with 56 inch chest?), Lalu said in a message on twitter.

Reminding Modi of his promises about black money made during the electioneering for 2014 Lok Sabha elections, Lalu said, “When your government is not able to arrest onion hoarders, how can you bring back black money from foreign countries?”

Posting an old picture of August 2013 showing the then Delhi BJP chief Vijay Goel selling onions to lodge symbolic protest against the then Delhi Government’s failure in checking onion prices, Lalu wrote in the photo caption, “Double standards of Jumla Party.”

Later, talking to reporters RJD chief recalled that the BJP leaders led by Vijay Goel had in August 2013 launched a campaign by selling onion at lower prices in New Delhi to protest the then Congress government’s failure to check the onion prices. “But, today these BJP leaders are silent. Why are they not protesting today when the NDA government led by Modi has miserably failed in checking onion prices?” Lalu asked.

In another tweet, Lalu quipped, “Why the value of Indian rupee is degrading and depreciating as low as the value of PM.”