Patna: Tej Pratap Yadav, the elder son of Lalu Prasad and president of the Janshakti Janata Dal, has posted a video online in which he appears to confront and threaten a journalist outside his official residence in Patna, days after receiving a notice to vacate the government-allocated property.
The video, shared via his YouTube channel “TY Vlog”, has since gone viral. In the footage, Yadav is heard warning a reporter and repeating a phrase that became associated with him during a previous controversy: “Come in for two minutes.” He can also be heard threatening to file a police complaint.
At the start of the video, Yadav alleges that journalists are stationed outside his residence “day and night” with the intention of “defaming” him. He accuses an unnamed political rival, referring to them as “Jaichand”—a term commonly used in Indian politics to imply betrayal—of paying the media to target him. “Call the Secretariat police station, we will file an FIR against him,” he says in the clip.
Yadav has recently been instructed to vacate his government accommodation, which has now been reallocated to minister Lakhendra Roshan. Following his defeat in the Mahua constituency in the recent assembly elections, he has returned to creating online video content, an activity he has pursued intermittently in the past.
