RJD to intensify agitation against Nitish government

PATNA: Alleging that the law and order situation was 'gradually declining' in Bihar, the RJD today said they would take up the issue with Governor at the earliest.

"The RJD leaders would petition Governor Devanand Konwar seeking his immediate intervention to improve law and order in Bihar," state RJD President Ramchandra Purve and General Secretary Ramkripal Yadav told reporters here.

"After the NDA having staged a comeback in Bihar, the law and order situation has started gradually declining", Purve said threatening to launch an intense agitation.

Purve alleged that more than 100 cases relating to murder and several others, linked with kidnapping for ransom, were reported from different parts of Bihar in the past one fortnight.

"Even a dalit woman was raped and an undertrial got beaten to death by another inmate in connivance with jail authorities in Nawada recently", he claimed.

"We will not sit idle and soon work out an agitaional plan to intensify the cmpaign against Nitish Kumar government", Purve said.