Oppn demands imposition of President's Rule in Bihar

Leaders of the BJP-led NDA on Sunday told Bihar Governor Ram Nath Kovind that law and order is deteriorating in Bihar and demanded imposition of President's rule in the state. M I Khan/ Rediff.com report from Patna.

Opposition National Democratic Alliance leaders including former chief minister and Hindustani Awam Morcha president Jitan Ram Manjhi and Lok Janshakti Party working president Chirag Paswan on Sunday demanded imposition of President's rule in Bihar in view collapse of law and order in the state.

“There is a need to impose president's rule in Bihar. I demand imposition of President's rule in Bihar in view of deteriorating law and order and rising crimes,” Manjhi said in Patna.

Manjhi also demanded a CBI probe into the killing of state Bharatiya Janata Party vice president Visheshwar Ojha.

Chirag Paswan, who LJP MP and son of union minister Ram Vilas Paswan, said there is no option other than imposition of President's rule in Bihar.

There is no law and order in the state. Criminals are free to target people.

Both Manjhi and Paswan told newspersons in Patna after a delegation of the BJP-led NDA on Sunday submitted a memorandum to governor Ram Nath Kovind in Patna on deteriorating law and order in Bihar and expressed serious concern over political killings in the state.

The NDA leaders including leader of opposition Prem Kumar, BJP state president Mangal Pandey, BJP MPs C P Thakur, Ashwani Kumar Choubey, met governor and raised the issue of deteriorating law and order in the state.

“We have submitted a memorandum to the government and requested him to instruct state government to improve law and order,” Pandey said.

Pandey said criminals have been targeting people like never before. “The state government has failed to check and control crimes and act against criminals, they are free to do anything,” he said.

Pandey said the BJP will launch a state-wide agitation against political killing from Feb 16.

BJP leaders told the governor that jailed gangsters and criminals have been threatening people from behind the bars and demanding extortion.

However, opposition BJP-led NDA’s day long strike on Sunday in Bihar’s Shahabad region against killing of the saffron party state vice president Visheshwar Ojha evoked mixed response.

A group of protesting NDA workers disrupted train traffic in Ara district.

The BJP gave a call of strike in Shahabad region comprises of Bhojpur, Rohtas, Kaimur and Buxar districts on Sunday in protest against the killing Visheshwar Ojha, on Friday.

The state BJP president had already said the party had given 72 hours ultimatum to the state government to arrest the main culprits involved in the killing.