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Bihar: Amit Shah’s Sasaram rally cancelled post Ram Navami violence

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Patna: Following the imposition of section 144 in Sasaram, BJP on Saturday cancelled the rally of Union Home Minister Amit Shah.
Bihar BJP President Samrat Chaudhary confirmed the development. He said that the district administration has imposed section 144 at the venue and in the entire Sasaram city, how could it be possible to organise an event there?
Chaudhary, however, said that Shah’s rally in Nawada will take place at the scheduled time on Sunday.
“It is extremely unfortunate that the Bihar government has failed to provide security to our men. Our supporters are being attacked by a section of people. The district administration has imposed section 144 in the city. Hence, how could it be possible to organise an event there?” Chaudhary said.
The BJP had a pre-scheduled programme at Sasaram to celebrate the birth anniversary of Samrat Ashok. The district has a significant number of people from Kushwaha community and BJP wants to get their support. Kushwaha community is in the target list of BJP to hurt the Lav-Kush equation of Nitish Kumar-led JD-U. Hence, an event was organised for Union Home Minister Amit Shah in Sasaram city.
The district administration imposed section 144 in Sasaram after a massive clash broke out between two groups over Ram Navami Shobha Yatra on Friday afternoon. Two houses, some shops and several vehicles were set on fire after a section of people pelted stones and bricks on the Shobha Yatra.
“Nitish Kumar has not done anything for Samrat Ashok. Due to the BJP, he did some work after 2015. If he has done anything for Samrat Ashok before 2015, he needs to mention it in public domain,” he said.
When asked about the Nawada rally, Chaudhary said that section 144 is not imposed in Nawada, hence the pre-scheduled programme of Nawada will take place at the scheduled time. Amit Shah is coming to Patna today and he will go to Nawada to attend the programme,” Chaudhary said.

Besides Sasaram, violence also erupted in Nalanda district over Ram Navami Shobha Yatra on Friday.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

April 1, 2023
Bihar JD-U MLA finds CHC staff drying wheat on hospital beds

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Patna: JDU MLA from Valmiki Nagar of Bihar’s Pashchim Champaran district, Dhirendra Pratap Singh alias Rinku Singh, exposed the “mismanagement” at a Community Health Centre (CHC) in his constituency.
The MLA went to the CHC in Thakahara village on a surprise inspection and found that wheat is being dried on hospital bed. Further, the legislator found that the operation theatre at the CHC is being used as store room and the medicines were thrown in dustbins.
“It was absolutely shocking that hospital employees were using beds to dry wheat. Dirt and dust are piled up in the male and female wards. The medicines are thrown in the dustbins and an operation theatre is being used as a store room,” Singh said.
“When we checked the roster of the hospital, several doctors and nurses were found absent… There was a complete mismanagement in the CHC, which is not tolerable. I will meet the district magistrate and civil surgeon, and will complain about it,” he said.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

March 31, 2023
Amit Shah to attend two BJP events in Bihar on April 2

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Patna: Union Home Minister Amit Shah will reach Bihar on April 1 to participate in two BJP events, newly-appointed state President Samrat Chaudhary said on Thursday.
Shah will attend two events in Sasaram and Nawada districts on April 2 with the aim of strengthening the party structure in Bihar ahead of Lok Sabha election 2024.
“Amit Shah will come to Patna on April 1. He will stay the night and go to Sasaram city in Rohtas district the next day. After that event, he will also go to Nawada as well. Ahead of the Lok Sabha election, his visit is important and it will give fresh energy to the BJP workers,” Chaudhary said.
After the formation of Mahagathbandhan government in Bihar, this is Amit Shah’s fifth visit to Bihar.
“We are preparing a plan to win all 40 seats. The visit of the Home Minister is related to it. He will come from time to time and assess the situation,” Chaudhary said.
“We are organising an event to celebrate Emperor Ashoka’s birth anniversary in Sasaram. Amit Shah is coming here to participate in this event. We are expecting a large number of people to come to the event,” he said.
Chaudhary also slammed Chief Minster Nitish Kumar for taking credit for making a convention hall in the name of the Emperor in Patna.
“I want to say that the Emperor Ashoka Convention Hall was constructed due to the BJP. We have planned to construct a Samrat Ashok convention hall in every district headquarter but when Nitish Kumar separated from us, he changed the name. Whatever he said on Samrat Ashok was absolutely false,” he claimed.

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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

March 30, 2023
License check: Bihar cop shoots student after chasing him

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A 20-year-old college student who failed to halt at a police checkpoint in Bihar’s Jehanabad district was shot at by a police officer late Tuesday evening.
Sudhir Kumar Yadav, the first-year college student who was shot, later admitted to eluding the crew at the checkpoint since he didn’t have a driver’s licence.
Assistant sub-inspector Mohammad Mumtaz Khan has been arrested, Jehanabad Superintendent of Police (SP) P Deepak Ranjan said and his service weapon has been transferred to the forensic laboratory for ballistic testing, the report stated.
Chandrahas Kumar, the Station House Officer (SHO) of Okri police station, and five police constables who were part of the police squad conducting vehicle checks have been suspended.
According to a report by the Hindustan Times, the event occurred at Ananthpur village, in the bordering Jehanabad district, a few kilometres from Sudhir’s residence. SHO Chandrahas Kumar and the ASI were stationed at a police checkpoint to inspect passing automobiles. The checkpoint was part of a district-wide operation to check vehicles.
Sudhir Yadav stated that he was riding his motorbike to the market when he noticed the police squad. He lacked both a driver’s licence and a helmet.
“I sped away when the SHO at the check post tried to stop me. A police officer chased me for about 4 kilometres and then fired at me,” the report quoted the victim. The bullet hit him on his back, and he fell down.
“My son got scared that cops will implicate him in a false case,” Sudhir Yadav’s father said, to explain why the victim didn’t stop at the check post.

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March 29, 2023
Bihar woman teacher found taking salary for 5 months while in Gujarat

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Patna: A woman assistant teacher in Bihar’s Khagaria district was found taking salary for the past 5 months while staying in Gujarat, an Education Department official said on Tuesday.
The incident came to light when Block Education Officer Ram Uday Mahto went to the government primary school located at ward number 4 and found the teacher, named Seema Kumari, absent for a few months. She was deployed at this school on deputation.
“When we enquired with the department, it appeared that the department is releasing the monthly salary on the basis of attendance being shown by the headmaster of her original middle school located at Bhadas village,” Mahto said.
“The primary school was sending the absentee report to her original school located at Bhadas village. Headmaster Vikas Kumar of the school converted her absentee attendance into attendance. On this basis of her attendance, the department was issuing her salary from September 2022.
“We have sent the report to the District Education Officer with the recommendation of stopping the salaries of Seema Kumari and Vikas Kumar. The department has done it,” he added.
Sources have said that more than 400 teachers are on the radar of the Education Department for using the deputation ploy to take salaries without going to work at school for a a single day.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

March 29, 2023
Land-for-jobs ‘scam’: Bihar Deputy CM Tejashwi questioned by CBI, ED quizzes sister Misa

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New Delhi: Investigation agencies on Saturday questioned Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav and his MP sister Misa Bharti in connection with the railways land-for-jobs scam case here, officials said.
While Yadav was quizzed by the CBI for more than eight hours, the ED questioned Bharti for over six hours, they said.
Slamming the BJP over the questioning of the two Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leaders, Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra alleged the ruling party wants to finish off the Opposition and democracy and also expressed solidarity saying, “We are all united against the attack on democracy.”
In a tweet in Hindi, she said, “BJP wants to finish off the Opposition and democracy from this country. That is why it is continuously attacking the voice of the people in the Opposition.”
Yadav had missed three earlier dates given by the agency and arrived at the CBI headquarters here around 10:30 am according to his commitment to the Delhi High Court last week, they said.
He was questioned till around 8 PM with a nearly 90-minute lunch break, during which he went out of the building, they said.
The CBI’s line of inquiry was believed to have focused on Yadav’s financial transactions, including his purported links to AB Exports Private Limited and AK Infosystems Pvt Ltd.
Last week, the CBI assured the Delhi High Court that Yadav would not be arrested this month.

Bharti was questioned by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in the railways land-for-jobs linked money laundering case here, officials said.
The Rajya Sabha member went to the agency’s office in central Delhi around 11 am and exited around 7 pm.
She left for lunch for over an hour in the noon during she which told waiting reporters outside the ED office that the proceedings were “confidential” and hence she would not want to comment.
It is understood that her statement was recorded by the investigating officer under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).
Yadav’s counsel, Maninder Singh, had informed the high court that he would require some time to appear before the CBI investigators due to the ongoing Bihar Assembly session, scheduled to conclude on April 5.
The CBI’s counsel, D P Singh, had argued that the assembly was not convened on Saturdays and Yadav could appear before the agency on any Saturday in March according to his convenience.
The RJD leader had sought quashing of the summonses issued against him on February 28, March 4 and March 11.
A special CBI court had already granted bail to Yadav’s father Lalu Prasad, mother Rabri Devi, sister Bharti and others in the same case on March 15.
The CBI’s probe is part of an ongoing investigation into documents and evidence that came to light after the initial charge sheet was submitted, as well as the alleged involvement of accused persons that could not be completed by the time the initial report was filed.
Officials said that fresh questioning was taking place as part of further investigation based on new inputs gathered during the agency’s ongoing probe.
The CBI has alleged that during Lalu Prasad’s tenure as railway minister from 2004 to 2009, favourite candidates were appointed in violation of norms and procedures without any advertisement or public notice.
The agency further claimed that substitutes from Patna were appointed in various zonal railways in Mumbai, Jabalpur, Kolkata, Jaipur, and Hazipur. In return, the candidates, directly or through their family members, allegedly sold land to Prasad’s family members at highly-discounted rates.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

March 25, 2023
BJP frightens Hindus for political gains: Tejashwi in Bihar assembly

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Patna: Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav on Tuesday launched a fresh attack on the BJP inside the state assembly where he charged the opposition party with stoking “fear in the minds of Hindus” for political gains.
Yadav was replying to the debate on budgetary allocation for the health department, a portfolio that he holds, amid a walkout by the BJP on the second consecutive day.
“I had said a lot yesterday and I had hoped that the opposition leaders will be around today to take the debate forward. But they chose to run away. They have not even moved a cut motion. I will say something about them towards the end of my statement”, Yadav told the Chair before launching into a speech that ran for over 20 minutes.
Outside the assembly, Leader of the Opposition Vijay Kumar Sinha insisted that the walkout followed “the government’s refusal to entertain a host of issues raised by us, including alleged involvement of a minister in a murder case and corruption cases against the Deputy CM himself”.
“Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has surrendered before his new ally (RJD) and the state is reverting to the era of lawlessness from which we had pulled it out with so much of effort”, alleged the BJP leader, whose party was stripped of power when Kumar snapped ties in August last year.
He also alleged that Speaker Awadh Bihari Chaudhary, who belongs to the RJD, had been running the House in a partisan manner.
When pointed out that Yadav has sought an apology for having been proven wrong on allegations of attacks on migrants in Tamil Nadu, Sinha stood his ground saying “the report of the team of officials that toured that state should be tabled inside the House for discussion”.
Inside the House, Yadav ended his speech, after which the budgetary demand for the health department was passed by a voice vote, tearing into the opposition party.

“The BJP likes to thrive in a paradox wherein people shall remain happy as Hindus despite being unemployed and having to survive on five kilograms of free ration. Hindus comprise 85 per cent of the population and the BJP instils in them fear of the remaining 15 per cent so that they remain beholden to the party”, said Yadav.
Yadav, who had promised 10 lakh jobs to the state’s youth, which helped him catch the public imagination in the 2020 assembly polls and propelled the RJD to the position of the single largest party, also told the House that the government was planning to provide employment to 1.6 lakh people in the health department itself.
“I am grateful to the Honourable Chief Minister who is present here and has fully supported me in fulfilling the promise of 10 lakh jobs. He has personally presided over a function where appointment letters were given to more than 10,000 recruits in the health department”, the Deputy CM added.
He, however, made it clear that the government will not tolerate laxity on part of employees and pointed out that “action has been initiated against 700 doctors who have been absent from duty for long. In one cabinet meeting, termination orders were passed for 70 of such erratic officials”.
He also disclosed that plans were afoot for an “emergency cadre” to ensure that patients do not suffer during unforeseen circumstances like strikes. In addition, a new “referral policy” was shaping up to put a check on the practice of doctors in other districts referring patients to Patna at the drop of a hat.
“We are also trying to put in place conditions wherein more and more medical facilities become available in various districts. This would further de-congest the hospitals in the state capital”, said Yadav.
He also said that the government was sensitive to the fact that a large number of employees in the health department were women for the benefit of whom sanitary pad vending machines were being installed at hospitals.
“We are also considering a proposal to make these vending machines available to women admitted to the health centres”, said the young leader.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

March 21, 2023
AIMIM chief Owaisi praises KCR in Bihar

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Patna: AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi showered praise on K Chandrasekhara Rao, the Chief Minister of his home state of Telangana, which is bracing for assembly elections later this year.
The Hyderabad MP was replying to queries from journalists in Bihar’s Kishanganj district, before winding up his tour of “Seemanchal”, a densely populated but poverty-ridden and flood-prone region of the state.
“I must say KCR has a vision. And he has done something worthwhile during his tenure, so far,” said Owaisi on Sunday in reply to a question about Prime Ministerial ambitions of regional satraps like Rao. Owaisi also praised KCR’s counterparts in Bihar and West Bengal, Nitish Kumar and Mamata Banerjee, respectively.
“Telangana is a landlocked state. Yet it has a very impressive gross state domestic product. It used to rank the highest in terms of use of pump sets. It is still the second highest producer of fisheries,” said the AIMIM Chief, whose party has seven MLAs in the 119-strong assembly.
Although KCR’s party, the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS), enjoys a brute majority, it faces a challenge in the upcoming elections with the BJP making inroads and, according to many political experts, tipped to replace the Congress as the principal opposition in Telangana.
Owaisi also lambasted the Congress and its allies for “crying democracy is in danger over what happened in Maharashtra but looking the other way when our MLAs in Bihar were lured away”.
The AIMIM had won five seats in the Bihar assembly polls of 2020 and four of its MLAs joined the RJD last year, one of them even getting a cabinet berth.
Owaisi said, “We wanted an alliance with Mahagathbandhan in 2020, but they derided us… Our performance was there for all to see. We had contested only 10 seats. In 2025, we will field our candidates in 50 constituencies of the 243-strong Bihar assembly”.

(Except for the headline, the story has not been edited by Siasat staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)
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March 20, 2023
Bihar: Man rapes stray dog in Patna, investigation underway

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Patna: A shocking incident has come to light from Bihar’s capital Patna where a stray dog was allegedly raped by a man.
The incident occurred on the day of Holi on March 8.
The video of the gruesome act also went viral on social media. The alleged incident took place in Faisal Colony of Phulwari Sharif.
In the CCTV footage, an unknown person is seen openly doing the unnatural act with a dog in the colony. Following this, an application was submitted over the matter by an NGO in Phulwari Sharif police station. After this, Patna Police started investigating the matter.
Assistant Superintendent of Police, Phulwari Sharif Manish Kumar said, “An application has come and call forward has been done with the document. Action will be taken under IPC and Animal Act. The matter is being investigated.”
The investigation is underway.
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March 20, 2023
4 Bihar residents killed, 28 injured as bus turns turtle at Awantipora

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Srinagar, Mar 18: At least four persons were killed and 28 more were injured after a bus they were travelling in turned turtle at Awantipora area of South Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Saturday.
An official told the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that a bus bearing registration number JK02BA 1881 turtle on National Highway in Gooripora area of Awantipora in which around 23 passengers received injuries.
They said that all the injured were shifted to hospital for treatment, however, three of them succumbed on the way to the hospital while another succumbed to his injuries at SDH Pampore.
He identified them as Nasrudin Ansari S/o Islam Ansari of Khairawa Tola Pakri Harditerha West Champaran, Bihar – 845451, Raj Karan Das S/o Shivu as Singhari Gobindpur Kishanganj, Khatia Pichhia, Bihar – 855117, Saleem Ali S/o Mohd Alauddin R/o Hakimnagar Chilhapara, Katihar, Telta Bihar – 854317 and Kaisher Alam S/o Sheo Majaqurul R/O Birnagar Sharifnagar Barsoiqhat, Katihar, Bihar- 854317.
He said that among 28 injured persons five with minor injuries were being treated at SDH Pampore who have been discharged while others were shifted to SMHS Srinagar, two to SKIMS Soura and 10 to Bone and Joint hospital Srinagar where the condition of a few more is said to be critical.
Meanwhile, police have taken cognizance and started an investigation in this regard.
Meanwhile LG Manoj Sinha expressed grief over the incident and directed district administration to provide all assistance to the affected persons.

“I am deeply anguished by the unfortunate Bus accident in Awantipora today, in which precious lives have been lost and many others have been injured. I have issued instructions to the District Administration to provide all necessary assistance to the affected persons,” Office of the LG tweeted.
“District Administration is in touch with the bereaved families in Bihar to provide all possible help. My heartfelt condolences to the families of the deceased and I wish speedy recovery to those injured.” Office of the LG tweeted later.
Deputy Commissioner Pulwama announced the ex-gratia of one lac for each deceased, Rs 25 Thousand for critically injured and Rs 10,000 for persons with minor injuries
“On the directions of HLG, DC Pulwama announced the ex gratia of one lac for each deceased and Rs 25,000 for the injured. Also ensured the best medical treatment for the injured in hospitals,” DC Pulwama tweeted.
DC Pulwama Baseer Ul Haq Choudhary while talking to KNO said that all formalities to take dead bodies back to Bihar have been completed and administration will bear the expenses to take them back to home for last rites.
He also visited SMHS & B & B&J hospitals to inquire about the health of the persons who were injured in the bus accident in Awantipora.
He ensured that best possible health care shall be extended to the injured—(KNO)
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( With inputs from : roshankashmir.net )

March 18, 2023