Bihar journalists thrashed in public on Tejasvi's directives…..!
Bihar journalists thrashed in public on Tejasvi’s directives…..!
(Sunil Negi, President, Uttarakhand Journalists Forum)
Media freedom seems to be at stake in Bihar as several mediapersons have been physically assaulted, thrashed n forcibly pushed aside by the security guards of Bihar’s deputy chief minister Tejasvi Yadav who labelled scribes putting trivial questions to him in a PC as Goondas and working on BJP agenda at Patna Secretariat, today. The media fraternity of the country is extremely furious n (is) r condemning this incident in strongest possible terms accusing RJD of gagging the press n free speech by force n coercion. This shameful n highly condemnable incident took place in Patna Secretariat where the deputy CM n Lalu Yadav’s son Tejasvi Prasad Yadav was addressing the Press conference. Sources say that extremely furious deputy CM Tejasvi directed his security guards to teach the mediamen a lesson as they seem to be serving the BJP agenda pre strategically to deliberately put him n RJD in quandary. It may be recalled that already accused in multi crore fodder scam Lalu Yadav’s sons, daughters, wife n former CM Bihar n some of the friends and close relatives are in a dire soup in view of the entire family in legal trap for massive corruption n money laundering charges. Their houses n business establishments were recently raided in various parts of the country by the Central Bureau of Investigations after the income tax department n Enforcement directorate registered several cases against them for undue arbitrary favours to familymen while LALU PRASAD YADAV was the Railway minister at the centre.
Meanwhile, relations between Lalu’s RJD n Chief minister Nitish Kumar have also become bad to worse n a notice has already been given to RJD chief Lalu Yadav n his both the sons to explain their positions within four days on various corruption charges failing which the possibility of the vertical split in Nitish Kumars’ government seem to be inevitable. However, the sons of lalu Yadav holding several ministeries have refused to resign on the pretext that they are innocent n have not been convicted from the court of Law. On the other hand an epitome of integrity n a mass leader of Bihar, Nitish Kumar is in no mood to relent n wud in all likelyhood prefer showing RJD the door of exit than to continue the political relation ship with lalu Yadav n RJD which has nw become the symbol of acute corruption, dynastic politics n bad socio political image. Despite all this, Lalu Yadav n his family accused the BJP led government at the centre led by Narendra Modi of being politically vindictive against the ideological foe who strongly believe n profess secularism against the communal agenda of BJP. Tejasvi is the product of Delhi Public School, R.K Puram n is a cricketeer having allegedly not yet qualified his matriculation. What do u say friends?