Bihar: Notification to free don-turned-politician creates a rift in Mahagathbandhan
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PATNA: Bihar authorities’s switch to launch former MP Anand Mohan has led to a crack throughout the state’s ruling Grand Alliance (GA) or Mahagathbandhan.
The notification was issued on Monday to free Anand Mohan, who was serving a sentence throughout the then Gopalganj district Justice of the Peace G Krishnaiah murder case.
While RJD, JD(U) and HAM, three predominant constituents of GA, supported the federal authorities’s willpower, CPI-ML opposed it describing it as an act of discrimination.
“Our men booked under TADA (Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention)Act are still behind the bar. On the other hand, 27 prisoners convicted for serious crimes are being set free after tweaking Bihar Prison Manual 2012,” acknowledged Kunal, office secretary of CPI-ML.
All CPI-ML MLAs will stage a dharna on April 28 as a mark of protest. CPI-ML is a part of the seven-party GA in Bihar. It has, nonetheless, not joined the federal authorities led by Nitish Kumar.
On the alternative hand, RJD spokesperson Mritunjay Tiwari hailed the federal authorities’s switch and acknowledged that the earlier MP was being launched as per the rule. “There is nothing wrong in it. I don’t know why there is a hue and cry over his release,” he acknowledged.
Defending the federal authorities JD(U) MLC Neeraj Kumar acknowledged, “Let it be clarified that the amendment has been done in Prison Manual. It is not to benefit any individual. Half of the prisoners, whose names figured in the list, were over 75 years of age and one of them is about 95 year-old.”
Senior BJP chief Sushil Kumar Modi acknowledged that the discharge of 27 convicted prisoners would create concern and psychosis amongst people. Toeing comparable traces, former BJP state president Sanjay Jaiswal acknowledged that these being launched from jail had been ‘gross sales house grabbers’ of RJD.
PATNA: Bihar authorities’s switch to launch former MP Anand Mohan has led to a crack throughout the state’s ruling Grand Alliance (GA) or Mahagathbandhan.
The notification was issued on Monday to free Anand Mohan, who was serving a sentence throughout the then Gopalganj district Justice of the Peace G Krishnaiah murder case.
While RJD, JD(U) and HAM, three predominant constituents of GA, supported the federal authorities’s willpower, CPI-ML opposed it describing it as an act of discrimination.googletag.cmd.push(carry out() googletag.present(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
“Our men booked under TADA (Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention)Act are still behind the bar. On the other hand, 27 prisoners convicted for serious crimes are being set free after tweaking Bihar Prison Manual 2012,” acknowledged Kunal, office secretary of CPI-ML.
All CPI-ML MLAs will stage a dharna on April 28 as a mark of protest. CPI-ML is a part of the seven-party GA in Bihar. It has, nonetheless, not joined the federal authorities led by Nitish Kumar.
On the alternative hand, RJD spokesperson Mritunjay Tiwari hailed the federal authorities’s switch and acknowledged that the earlier MP was being launched as per the rule. “There is nothing wrong in it. I don’t know why there is a hue and cry over his release,” he acknowledged.
Defending the federal authorities JD(U) MLC Neeraj Kumar acknowledged, “Let it be clarified that the amendment has been done in Prison Manual. It is not to benefit any individual. Half of the prisoners, whose names figured in the list, were over 75 years of age and one of them is about 95 year-old.”
Senior BJP chief Sushil Kumar Modi acknowledged that the discharge of 27 convicted prisoners would create concern and psychosis amongst people. Toeing comparable traces, former BJP state president Sanjay Jaiswal acknowledged that these being launched from jail had been ‘gross sales house grabbers’ of RJD.
