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"Laluji had not tutored me to take any such action (tearing the Lokpal Bill)," he said.
"There was no ring master behind my action...Whatever I did was an outcome of my emotional outbursts on the spur of the moment," the Rajya Sabha member said.
During the high drama shortly before midnight, the RJD chief was seated in the Lok Sabha members' gallery of the Upper House, calmly watching the scene.
An unrepentant Prasad said he would not allow passage of the bill in the House in future also if it did not incorporate amendments like defining the applicability of reservation for SC/ST/OBC, minority and women in the anti-graft panel and excluding Prime Minister from its ambit.
Asked if he would again tear the bill, he said, "My way of protest will depend on the situation at that time."
As the MP justified his action, his party colleagues in the Upper House also supported him.
Leader of RJD in Rajya Sabha Zabir Hussain said one has to see his action in the context of the situation.
"Not only Rajniti Prasad, but we all RJD representatives were angry over government's failure to explain if the minority community will get a place in the anti-graft panel. Prasad could not control his emotions," he said.
Hussain, who has served as Chairman of Bihar Legislative Council for a decade, said besides this is not for the first time that such an event has taken place in a legislative history.
RJD member Ramkripal Yadav, who was by the side of Prasad when he was creating uproar in Rajya Sabha on the bill, said, "There was no bad intention in Prasad's action."
Similar protests have been staged several times in Parliament and other Legislative Houses in the past too, he said.
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What can we expect fro Lalu and his gang who have brought immensee misery to the poor of Bihar for so many years? It is hard to believe that these trash of the society is allowed ANY say in ANY matter concerning Bihar let alone the whole nation.
this mp should be banned from attending sessions or any other examplary punishment should be given so that they do not take recourse to such unparliamentary action.these are the law-maker who shouts that parliament is supreme.shame on these politicians who are bringing a bad name to the nation.
From the incident shown in TV itself it is very clear shrewd drama had been enacted in Parliament to burry the Bill which is weak spineless one to punish guilty by ruling party. It was and is clear ruling UPA alliance had no majority in Rajyasabha and if major amendments would have been accepted by majority UPA alliance would have shell shocked to find a effective bill after amendments and the victims to receive sentences would have been from UPA. Hence drama of stalling the vote. I am sure Lalu"s party will get plush cabinet post shortly as price for acting as hero in Rajyasabha
If it is natural outburst as you claim why did you not think that was not the place, which your leader claimed sacrosanct and supreme and no one should question its decision, where you should have shown your impatience. Were you not blackening your own leader's face by so doing?