New Delhi: Former Bihar chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi on Thursday slammed state’s Deputy Chief Minister Tejasvi Yadav’s comment for comparing the Pathankot terror attack to the killing of a youth in a road rage incident in Gaya last week and called for a CBI inquiry into the matter.
Manji told ANI, “Every state government is responsible and answerable for whatever is happening within its boundaries and so is the case in Bihar. Now, if we talk of Bihar then I will say that the people of the state have voted for the JD (U) and RJD to maintain the law and order situation, I requested the Prime Minister for a CBI inquiry, the truth will come out then.”
“Gaya is not the lone case which is an example of ‘jungle raj’, there are many more. This case was shocking, it showed the people of these parties believe that nobody can stand in front of them, they are terrorising people,” he added.
Tejaswi Yadav yesterday listed several cases, including the Pathankot terror attack, to deny the opposition’s charge that there was jungle raj in the state.
“Isn’t raising of Pakistani flags in Kashmir valley an example of jungle raj? What about terrorists’ attack on the IAF base at Pathankot, isn’t that jungle raj,” Tejaswi, the son of RJD president Lalu Prasad Yadav, said.
“In Madhya Pradesh, an officer was killed brutally by sand mafias. In Vyapam scam, witnesses were killed one by one … but this is not called a ‘jungle raj’,” he said.
“When an engineer was killed in Jharkhand, neither the conscience of the BJP was pricked nor the BJP-supported media remembered ‘jungle raj’ jumla (euphism),” he added.
Opposition parties earlier trained guns at Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for allowing the return of ‘jungle raj’ after JD (U) MLC Manorama Devi’s son Rocky Yadav allegedly shot dead a 20-year-old youth for overtaking his vehicle last week.
