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He came into limelight by tearing lokpal bill documents in Rajya Sabha while his party leader and former Bihar chief Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav looked on from visitors gallery of the Parliament of India. Opposition leaders called this event as the murder of the democracy. On 29 December 2011, during discussion on Lokpal bill, Prasad snatched lokpal bill document from the hands of Minister of State in the Prime Minister" General’ s Office(PMO), Narayanswami while debating the Lokpal Bill in the House.
Opposition parties like BJP, Consumer price index have accused Indian National Congress and Rastriya Janata Dal of choreographing the whole debate and said that the government was running away from the House because it is in minority.
He also stated that he doesn"t want to cut the same branch on which he is sitting and harm himself. In Hindi, his first name Rajniti (Hindi: राजनीति, Rājnīti) means "politics".
