Sushil Kumar Modi slams Nitish for touring Uttar Pradesh

BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi today hit out at Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for visiting Uttar Pradesh at a time when his state was “gripped by violence”.

“It is regrettable that neither the Chief Minister nor his ministers have time to visit the families of the slain teenager in Gaya and that of a journalist in Siwan district,” he said in a statement resenting Kumar’s visit to Varanasi and Lucknow.

Referring to the Rajdeo Ranjan murder case, Modi alleged that fingers were being pointed at incarcerated former RJD MP Mohammed Shahabuddin.

45-year-old Ranjan was instrumental in the release of a video in which Shahabuddin was seen meeting RJD minister Abdul Gafoor and another leader a couple of months back.

Claiming that the Bihar Police was clueless about finding the killers even two days after the incident, the former deputy chief minister demanded a CBI probe, and said the local police was incapable of carrying out an impartial probe in the matter.

Alleging that there was a pattern in the murder case, Modi recalled that a BJP MP’s spokesperson Srikant Bharti too was also gunned down by unidentified assailants in Siwan district in November, 2014.

The RJD, a part of the ruling Grand Alliance government in Bihar, had recently nominated Shahabuddin as a member of its national executive.