“Jangalraj Returns!”: BJP Leader Holds Bihar CM Nitish Responsible for Death of a Party Leader

GG News Bureau

Patna, 14th July. Samrat Choudhary, the leader of the opposition in the Bihar Assembly and a BJP leader, lashed out at state Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Thursday, claiming him responsible for the death of a party leader during a protest in Patna.

Samrat Choudhary, speaking to the media here, strongly attacked the state government, referring to it as a return to “jungle raaj returns.”

“It all happened because of Kursi Kumar (Nitish Kumar). I am alleging directly that Vijay Singh was murdered due to Nitish Kumar and Tejashwi Yadav. You murdered him, Nitish Babu. There are many party workers who sustained injuries. The Bihar government has failed the state on the law and order grounds,” the BJP leader said.

A BJP leader from Jehanabad died, allegedly as a result of a police lathi charge, while taking part in a party protest against the Bihar government’s teacher recruitment policy.

The BJP has been protesting against the Nitish Kumar-led Mahagathbandhan government and in support of the teachers’ demand that vacancies be filled immediately and the domicile clause be reinstated.

Chouhan went on to criticize Bihar’s chief minister, claiming that the state’s situation has become similar to that of West Bengal after Nitish Kumar entered Mamata Banerjee’s “protection”.

“Since Nitish Kumar went to Mamata Banerjee’s protection, the situation of Bengal and Bihar has been the same,” he said.

He further said that the BJP party will hold a ‘black day’ on Friday against the Bihar government. “We will hold a black day tomorrow against the Nitish Kumar government.

We have requested the Governor for his time. As soon as he will be in Bihar, a delegation of the party will brief the whole incident to them to take note of it. We will question the government in the Legislative Assembly why it allowed the lath charge on the protesters,” he added.

However, the Patna district administration has denied the BJP’s allegations, saying that the deceased did not even “reach” the protest site.

“Information was received that a person from Jehanabad has died. Bharat Prasad Chandravanshi, who is a resident of Nizamudipur in Jehanabad, said that they had not even reached the protest site and that there had been a stampede and many people were running back, meanwhile, Vijay Singh fell unconscious. We immediately took him to Tara Hospital. He was taken to PMCH by ambulance where doctors declared him brought dead after a while,” the administration said.

However, taking to Twitter, BJP senior leader Sushil Kumar Modi who was part of the protest said, “Arrested by Bihar police in Patna. Jehanabad dist GS Vijay Kumar Singh died in a brutal police lathi charge.”

Further talking to ANI, Modi said the BJP will file a case against the police officials under the section for murder.

“It is so unfortunate that one of our party workers died due to a lathi charge by the police. He died on the way to the hospital. We will lodge murder charges against the police. Nitish Kumar is responsible for all this,” Bihar former Deputy CM Sushil Modi said.

Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas Paswan) chief Chirag Paswan, while condoling the death, lashed out at the Bihar government and CM Nitish Kumar holding him responsible for the incident.

“I condole the death of BJP worker Vijay Singh, on behalf of my party… I also want to ask Nitish Kumar and the Bihar government, who is responsible for his death? Somebody was beaten to death by a lathi…those who raise their voice against the state govt are silenced by lathi…CM must answer; he is accountable for this death”: Chirag Paswan said.