Anti-Muslim utterances of BJP MLA, mob lynching rock Bihar meeting

By PTI

PATNA: The Bihar meeting was on Monday adjourned for an urgently convened assembly of the enterprise advisory committee as opposition members appeared decided to nook the Nitish Kumar authorities on a variety of points.

As quickly because the House assembled at 11 AM, a number of members of the opposition events, primarily the RJD, trooped into the nicely demanding suspension of BJP MLA Haribhushan Thakur Bachaul.

Bachaul is within the eye of a storm over an announcement he gave to the media final week that Muslims residing in India ought to be stripped of voting rights and handled as second class residents.

After repeated pleadings by Speaker Vijay Kumar Sinha, the opposition MLAs went again to their seats and started apprising the Chair of the problems they have been involved about.

Besides the utterances of Bachaul, two different points have been raised.

These included alleged mob lynching of a employee of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s JD(U) in Samastipur by suspected cow vigilantes and police high-handedness in implementing prohibition which had lately received the goat of the Speaker in his personal meeting constituency.

Parliamentary Affairs Minister Vijay Kumar Chaudhary rose to answer on the federal government’s behalf.

However, the opposition members appeared dissatisfied and stored demanding “Karya mantrana samiti ki baithak” (assembly of the enterprise advisory committee).

A bit of after 11.30 AM, the Speaker adjourned the House, requesting the members to affix him for a gathering of the enterprise advisory committee at 11.45 AM.