Bihar CM condemns killing of Patna youth by Mumbai police

Bihar CM condemns killing of Patna youth by Mumbai police
Zeenews Bureau

New Delhi, Oct 27: A group of agitated Bihar leaders including the Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav and Lok Janshakti Party president Ram Vilas Paswan met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and expressed deep anguish over the shoot out of Rahul who had been repeatedly asking the passengers not to panic and was not seen by any eye witness to have fired on anyone.

He was murdered in cold blood and I have strong objections to the Home Minister’s statement,” Nitish Kumar said. He also added that the PM has promised to take action and he was sure that justice would be done in Rahul’s case.

An angry Lalu Yadav lashed out on the Mumbai police accusing them on firing on and killing an innocent Rahul who comes from a respectable family and who had no intention to harm any one but to bring his thoughts before the people.

On the other hand, Lok Jan Shakti leader Ram Vilas Paswan asked the centre to impose Article 355 on Maharastra and demanded judicial probe into Rahul’s case.

Maha political parties flay Bihar leaders` stand

Political parties in Maharashtra

today accused political leaders from Bihar of adopting an `anti-Maharashtra` stand following the killing of a Bihar boy in a shootout here and said this would send a `wrong signal`.

Shiv Sena Rajya Sabha MP and spokesperson Sanjay Raut was critical of Bihar leaders dragging his party’s name unnecessarily in this episode.

All Maharashtra MPs cutting across party lines should take note of "anti-Maharashtra" stand taken by the leaders from Bihar, Raut told agencies.

"The stand of Bihari leaders is setting a wrong precedent and our party would have to take a definite stand if this continues," Raut said.

Echoing similar view, Congress spokesperson Anant Gadgil said trying to present the shootout as Bihar versus Maharashtra by Bihari political leaders was `unnecessary` and `uncalled for` and instead they should get together to create more jobs in their state.

"The Bihar leaders should stop this divisive politics and concentrate on development activities for the youth in the state", he said adding in the shootout incident "police could not have remained a mute spectator".

"The state government should become alert at least after the Bihar boy fired from a pistol in a local bus in this manner," MNS General Secretary Shirish Parkar said.

"They should understand from the incident that how weapons are easily available in states like Bihar and Uttar Pradesh," Parkar added.

When a man hijacks a bus, ties up the conductor, fires shots injuring two persons and brandishes the gun to all and sundry, the police, in the midst of peak hour traffic would have had only one thought - to somehow neutralize the crazy man. They could not take the risk of mollycoddling the youth. Therefore the police did the right thing in shooting the chap who wanted to shoot Raj Thackeray. Instead of calling the youth’s antics foolish, the Bihar CM has called the police cold blooded murderers. I am sure in similar circumstance, his police force would have acted similarly. I congratulate the Mumbai Police force for quickly bringing the drama to a conclusion.