Nitish calls for investigation into Maoist threat
With 64 NDA leaders and workers quitting their parties in Gaya district under threat by the Maoists, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday asked the IG (Patna Zone) to investigate.
By PTI |
PATNA: With 64 NDA leaders and workers quitting their parties in Gaya district under threat by the Maoists, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday asked the IG (Patna Zone) to investigate.
"I have taken a serious note of media reports of several NDA workers having left their parties in three blocks of Gaya district," the chief minister said.
He said he had asked IG (Patna Zone) Sunil Kumar to investigate alleged police atrocities and implication of innocent persons in false cases in naxalite-related cases that led the Maoists to issue threats.
Kumar said the IG was authorised to take action against police officials responsible for alleged atrocities.
A high-level committee comprising senior party leaders from the state and from outside would also be constituted in consultation with JD(U) President Sharad Yadav to look into the charge of lack of development in three blocks.
The three blocks were represented in the state assembly by Speaker Uday Narain Chaudhary.
The NDA activists including three JD(U) block presidents and as many from the BJP had resigned from the party at a press conference yesterday on the diktat of Maoists.
Earlier, 24 of them were reported to have been kidnapped last Tuesday by the Maoists, who later released them after they agreed to resign from their parties.
"I have taken a serious note of media reports of several NDA workers having left their parties in three blocks of Gaya district," the chief minister said.
He said he had asked IG (Patna Zone) Sunil Kumar to investigate alleged police atrocities and implication of innocent persons in false cases in naxalite-related cases that led the Maoists to issue threats.
Kumar said the IG was authorised to take action against police officials responsible for alleged atrocities.
A high-level committee comprising senior party leaders from the state and from outside would also be constituted in consultation with JD(U) President Sharad Yadav to look into the charge of lack of development in three blocks.
The three blocks were represented in the state assembly by Speaker Uday Narain Chaudhary.
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"Effective political and police action would be taken to tackle the problem in the naxal-hit district after the two committees submit their reports," he told reporters on the sidelines of his 'janata durbar'. The NDA activists including three JD(U) block presidents and as many from the BJP had resigned from the party at a press conference yesterday on the diktat of Maoists.
Earlier, 24 of them were reported to have been kidnapped last Tuesday by the Maoists, who later released them after they agreed to resign from their parties.
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