A four-member team of the agency led by its joint director (east) U N Biswas, DIG (Patna) N C Verma and police superintendent (Patna), Harinath Mishra, questioned Yadav about his property, investment in real estate, expenses on education of his nine children and other domestic expenses.

Emerging from the examination, RJD president said the questioning took place in ``a cordial atmosphere''.

Yadav said at the outset he showed a newspaper report which quoted Biswas as facing threat to his life.

The report quoting an interview purported to have been given by Biswas to a Bengali daily Uttar Bang

published from Siliguri said ``My life is passing through a difficult phase ever since the CBI began probing the fodder scam thatled to Laloo's resignation from chief ministership.''

The RJD president said he wanted to know from Biswas whether the report was ``correct''. He said Biswas, however, denied it saying ``we should not go by newspaper reports.''

The RJD president said the CBI officers asked him about Rajinder Singh, a retired deputy secretary of the state assembly in connection with withdrawal of Rs 1.51 lakh from his (Yadav's) saving bank account.

``I had given the cheque to Singh to withdraw the amount for construction of my house here,'' he said.

Yadav said the CBI team wanted to know about the gift cheque of Rs 10,000 given by former Union minister Kanti Singh on the birth anniversary of my eldest daughter (Misa) and expense of another Rs 10,000 during Chath festival by his wife and Chief Minister Rabri Devi.

He said he told the CBI team that he had already disclosed the property and sources of income and expenditure to the income tax department ``and I have nothing to hide.''

Yadav charged the ``communal'' BJPministry with using CBI to harass him for his role in voting out the Vajpayee Ministry.

``The CBI is playing a football match at the behest of Delhi. The investigating agency harassed my wife and is now disturbing me,'' he said.

The RJD president said he had no grudge against the CBI despite the alleged humiliation and insult being inflicted on him and his wife.

``It is BJP which holds the remote-control for harassing me using CBI as a tool at the time of elections,'' he said adding the communal forces would be finished for all times to come and secular combinations would capture power at the Centre after the coming Lok Sabha polls.

``I am a disciple of Jannayak Jaiprakash Narayan... I am a fakir... I have othing to conceal,'' Yadav said.

``Yadav wanted a cup of tea before the questioning began which we offered... We offered another cup of tea when he was about to leave on completion of the exercise,'' Biswas said refusing to divulge the details of interrogation.

Earlier, the RJD president droveto the CBI's state headquarters here with a posse of policemen escorting him at 1035 hours and returned to the 1, Anne Marg official residence of the Chief Minister.