Patna: A BJP employee died Thursday when a protest march he was collaborating in allegedly turned violent after a police lathicharge.
In keeping with senior occasion leaders, Vijay Kumar Singh, normal secretary of the BJP within the Jehanabad district, was collaborating in a celebration protest demanding regularisation of the state’s 1.75 contractual academics. The protest, which started at Gandhi Maidan in Patna and was to finish at Vidhan Sabha, allegedly took a violent flip when the police started lathicharging protesters.
The incident, in accordance with the BJP, occurred at Dak Bungalow Crossing.
Senior occasion chief and former deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi informed ThePrint that Vijay Kumar fainted after receiving blows to his head. He was rushed to the Patna Medical School and Hospital (PMCH), the place he died, he mentioned.
“He was a honest occasion employee. He died after struggling head accidents within the lathicharge. We had taken permission for the march from the district administration however the police used brute power,” Modi mentioned, including that Chief Minister Nitish Kumar was “murdering democracy”.
“His dying won’t go in useless. The individuals of Bihar will give this authorities a befitting response,” he mentioned.
Shekhar Thakur, the medical superintendent at PMCH, confirmed that Singh was delivered to the hospital Thursday afternoon. “Our medical doctors tried to avoid wasting him. He died half-hour after he was admitted to the hospital,” Thakur informed ThePrint.
Bihar Police, in the meantime, denied having something to do with the BJP employee’s dying.
“The deceased was discovered unconscious at Chajju Bagh and brought to PMCH the place he was admitted within the intensive care unit. There are not any indicators or marks of outdoor accidents on his physique,” Patna Superintendent of Police Rajiv Mishra informed ThePrint. Chajju Bagh is 1.1 km from Dak Bungalow, the place the lathicharge allegedly occurred.
The event comes at a time when the meeting is holding its monsoon session.
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In keeping with the BJP, a number of occasion leaders, amongst them MP Janardan Singh Sigriwal and state occasion president Samrat Choudhary, sustained accidents Thursday.
A number of BJP leaders have been additionally detained however launched later, Chief of Opposition Vijay Kumar Sinha informed ThePrint, including that his occasion would maintain one other march to protest towards the alleged violence and can apprise the governor, Rajendra Arlekar, of the developments.
Police sources mentioned practically 6,000 policemen have been deployed for the deliberate protest march.
An IPS officer informed ThePrint that the police had mishandled the state of affairs. “The way in which they tackled the protests confirmed that they’re untrained. They have been towards political staff and never criminals,” the officer, who didn’t wish to be named, mentioned. “Lathicharge needs to be beneath the waist and never on the pinnacle. However I noticed the police do it above the waist.”
Thursday’s improvement appears to be the most recent addition to an extended record of issues for the Bihar authorities underneath CM Nitish Kumar. Its June resolution to eliminate a domicile criterion for recruiting academics in authorities colleges has triggered a sequence of protests.
As well as, Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav was chargesheeted in an alleged land-for-jobs rip-off — which allegedly entails the acquisition of enormous parcels of land at throwaway costs in trade for jobs within the Indian Railways — earlier this month.
The BJP can also be accusing the federal government of getting backpedalled on its promise of 10 lakh jobs — another excuse for the protest Thursday.
(Edited by Uttara Ramaswamy)
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