Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday blamed the BJP for the recent violence in the state’s Nalanda and Rohtas districts and categorically denied that it was a ‘failure of his administration’. The Bihar Janata Dal-United leader assured that there is peace. The law and order situation is being closely monitored everywhere across the state. “There is peace everywhere in the state now. We are monitoring the situation at both the places (Nalanda and Rohtas). It was not a failure of the administration. Some people have deliberately created this disturbance as part of a conspiracy,” Bihar CM Nitish Kumar told reporters.
There is peace everywhere in the state now. We are monitoring the situation at both the places (Nalanda and Rohtas). It was not a failure of the administration. Some people have deliberately created this disturbance under a conspiracy: Bihar CM Nitish Kumar pic.twitter.com/Gf95zCNxYL– ANI (@ANI) April 5, 2023
Hitting out at AIMIM leader Asaduddin Owaisi, the Bihar Chief Minister said the Hyderabad AIMIM MPs are actually “agents of the BJP”. Kumar alleged that Owaisi and his party were indirectly helping the BJP in Bihar.
Nitish Kumar had earlier said that communal tension during Ram Navami festivities in Sasaram and Biharsharif towns started due to some people indulging in “gadbad” (mischief) and rejected the BJP’s allegation that it was due to poor law and order situation in the state. indicates the status of
Interacting with media persons on Saturday, Kumar also highlighted Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s cancellation of his visit to Sasaram in the wake of the riots, remarking, “I don’t know why he was coming and I don’t understand.” Why did they decide not to come. Come”.
Significantly, the BJP on Monday slammed Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for communal violence in the state, saying he seems to have lost the will to govern and should “stop dreaming of becoming prime minister and Instead the state should take care of it’.
Former Bihar Deputy CM and BJP MP Sushil Kumar Modi has hit out at the leaders of the state’s ruling coalition for blaming the BJP and right-wing organizations for the violence and wondered why the government had not exposed such a conspiracy.
“If this is a conspiracy by the BJP, why haven’t you exposed it? Lakhs of people participating in Ram Navami processions across the state are not members of the BJP, but of Hindu society. They could be from any party. 1st Bar in his tenure of over 17 years as CM, Nitish Kumar has been unable to control such a situation even after so many days.Sushil Modi said the violence was reported from places which are “known sensitive areas”. , But still no preventive measures were taken.
The state police have so far arrested over 100 people in connection with the communal riots that broke out during the Ram Navami festival in Sasaram and Bihar Sharif. Vehicles, houses and shops were torched and several people were injured in reports of communal flare-ups in both the towns. In Sasaram, the district administration ordered the imposition of Section 144 on Friday afternoon after a fresh flare-up of clashes, which first broke out the previous evening.