June 20, 2015 00:13 IST

Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad Yadav on Friday said that there was no need for the poor to practice yoga. He added that yoga has been practiced by who those have eaten funds of poor and became rich and super rich.

"Poor and poorest of the poor have no need to practice yoga because they have not accumulated fat on their bodies," Lalu said in Patna at a party function.

Lalu claimed that he also did not need to practice yoga.

"Poor people have to be provided adequate food first for their survival. There are 14 crore poor people in the country who are fighting hunger,” he said.

He said that the landless farmers, poor labourers, milkmen and rickshaw-pullers do not have potbellies because they work hard.

"What is the need for them to practice yoga?"Lalu said.

He said that yoga has become a fashion among a section of people, who have

been suffering from obesity and accumulated fat on their bodies by eating into funds meant for poor.

“Bharatiya Janata Party president Amit Shah and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh people, who have become fat, will practice yoga, but not the poor with symptoms of malnutrition," Lalu said.

Lalu said that his thousands of party workers, who he refers to as his ‘private army’ ‘will fight the battle against the BJP in upcoming Bihar assembly polls.

"My private army will expose the BJP's failures in villages," he claimed.