Like West Bengal, officials of the Enforcement Directorate and the Central Bureau of Investigation could face similar attacks in Bihar, claimed Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP and Sushil Kumar Modi. Expressing fear of a possible law and order situation, the former Bihar Deputy Chief Minister alleged that the Central probe agency officials would be attacked by supporters of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) in the state.
Modi made these claims during an interview with India Today TV. He said that circumstances, similar to what was seen in Bengal on Friday, were observed when former Chief Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav was to be arrested in the fodder scam case.
On Friday morning, an ED team was attacked and their vehicles were damaged by a mob of nearly a thousand people during a raid at the residence of TMC leader Sheikh Shajahan at West Bengal’s Sandeshkhali.
Sushil Modi said that making an SOS call to the army was being considered over the attack on the ED officials.
Slamming RJD over the land-for-job scam, Modi alleged that Lalu Yadav and his son Tejashwi made poor job aspirants pay them with land plots. The BJP leader also advised the father-son duo, who have been implicated in the case, to give point-to-point answers to ED officials.
“The RJD leaders will have to provide their responses and cooperate with the ensuing enquiry,” he told India Today TV.
On the other hand, RJD slammed Sudhil Modi for “tarnishing Lalu Yadav’s image” and predicted a “BJP-planned West Bengal-like attack” in Bihar.
Describing the attack on ED officials in West Bengal as a “reaction to action”, RJD spokesperson Mrityunjay Tiwari said the saffron party is making “evil designs” to polarise voters.
The party also alleged that a “similar BJP-planned” may happen in Bihar on officials of probe agencies with an aim to tarnish the state government’s reputation.
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