"Amit Shah's visited Bihar for his own benefit, not to give special status": Tejashwi Yadav

Patna (Bihar) [India], September 18 (ANI): Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav on Thursday criticised Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s visit to Bihar, saying that he came for his own benefit rather than to give special status to the state.

Speaking to the reporters, the RJD leader said, “He is not coming to end unemployment. He is coming for his own benefit. He is not coming to give special status for Bihar.”

Yadav also asked about Minister Jibesh Kumar’s assaulting and verbally abusing a journalist. “Will any action be taken against the minister who beat up the journalist?” he asked.

Earlier on Monday, Leader of Opposition in the Bihar Assembly Tejashwi Yadav accused the state’s minister of Urban Development and Housing Department, Jibesh Kumar, of assaulting and verbally abusing a journalist, and demanded that an FIR be registered against him.

While addressing a press conference in Patna, Yadav showed a purported video of the minister shouting at a journalist, who belongs to a backward community. Yadav alleged that the minister was on a visit to his Jale constituency, and beat up the journalist after he asked a question about the condition of the roads.

“He (Jibesh Kumar Mishra) has also been found guilty in a fake drug case. He has committed a serious crime while being a Minister, and I present the video before you. When the Minister was visiting his constituency, a journalist hailing from a backward community asked him a question about roads. The Minister beat him up and abused him,” the RJD leader said.

As Yadav trained his guns at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, questioning whether the actions of the state minister are known to him ahead of his visit to Purnea, or even known to Chief Minister Nitish Kumar or the deputy CMs, too.

“Before 2005, such questions used to be asked. The question was just about roads, not a lowly question. Does the Chief Minister, or the Prime Minister, who is coming here today, know? Does the journalist not have a mother and sister?” he said.

Further calling for an FIR to be registered against the minister, he added, “Journalists should ask, will the minister have an FIR registered against him? Will he get punished? This is all evidence.”

Accusing the administration of suppressing any action against ministers, Yadav questioned why an FIR has not been registered over the alleged incident.

“This is the BJP’s culture, I have never seen a minister giving such bad abuses to a journalist, beating up the journalist. What kind of administration is this? Is the law different for those? I would like to know from both the deputy CMs and even the PM, whether the law is the same or different? If it is the same, why is there no FIR?”

He also accused the police of colluding with the ministers to allow them to take bribes. (ANI)

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