Several supporters of controversial former Bihar MP Pappu Yadav on Tuesday staged a protest right here in defiance of the lockdown as their chief was picked up from his home, stored at a neighborhood police station for hours and whisked away to a far-off district in the night in reference to a 32 years previous case. The supporters of Yadav, who’s the founding president of Jan Adhikar Party, alleged that he was being hounded due to his current “expose” of Rajiv Pratap Rudy, who’s an MP of the BJP which guidelines the Centre and shares energy in the state.
Yadav’s spouse Ranjit Ranjan, herself a former Congress MP from Supaul, mentioned she “feared” for her husband’s life, smelt a “big conspiracy” behind his arrest and warned that she would maintain the NDA authorities and Chief Minister Nitish Kumar accountable if something untoward occurred to Yadav whereas in custody. The excessive drama started in the forenoon when Yadav was picked up from his Mandiri residence and brought to the Gandhi Maidan police station.
The native administration right here got here out with a launch hours later stating that Yadav and 10 of his supporters had been booked for making a ruckus on the Patna Medical College Hospital (PMCH). The FIR, lodged underneath the Disaster Management Act, the Epidemics Act and related sections of the IPC, was nevertheless registered at Pir Bahore police station, located a few kilometre and a half away, which has jurisdiction in issues relating to the PMCH.
The arrest of Yadav, a politician with felony antecedents who has usual himself after Robinhood, was decried by political leaders from virtually all events who identified in the direction of his acts of charity through the ongoing pandemic and warned of the episode sending a incorrect message. From the NDA camp, Yadav’s arrest was frowned upon by Rajnish Kumar, a BJP MLC, minister Mukesh Sahni who’s founding president of a fledgling Vikassheel Insaan Party, and former Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi, who heads the Hindustani Awam Morcha and whose son Santosh Suman is a member of the state cupboard.
Leaders of Chief Minister Nitish Kumars JD(U) nevertheless, selected not to react over the stormy episode. Those from opposition events like RJD and Congress predictably denounced the arrest and sought to hyperlink it with Yadavs current spat with Rudy, the sitting MP from Saran.
Yadav had not too long ago accused Rudy of getting “hoarded” a lot of unused ambulances at a property owned by the latter.His accusations had met with a powerful rebuttal by the BJP MP.
Outside the Gandhi Maidan police station, numerous JAP supporters stood shouting slogans denouncing the “conspiratorial” method in which their chief was picked up in reference to a “fabricated” native case and held underneath detention for hours earlier than being informed that he might be taken away by a visiting police workforce to Madhepura the place a courtroom had handed a non-bailable warrant in opposition to him. The case, relating to abduction, is alleged to have been lodged approach again in 1989 and the warrant, which adopted Yadav’s failure to seem earlier than the courtroom regardless of repeated summons, was issued in March this 12 months.
“He is being taken to Madhepura in connection with a case registered at Kumarkhand police station there”, Deputy SP (Town), Patna, Suresh Kumar informed PTI-Bhasha. “Anybody can see it is a conspiracy and a farce. A 32 years old case, a warrant that is two months old.
“And a day is chosen when our chief is first made to sit at a police station in sweltering climate for the entire day earlier than enterprise an arduous highway journey”, cried an exasperated JAP worker.
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