Patna: Expressing concern over spurt in crime ever since the Grand Secular Alliance government came to power with a thumping majority two months back, Union minister Ram Vilas Paswan on Sunday claimed that Bihar was firmly in the grip of 'jungle raj-2' and threatened statewide agitation by his Lok Janshakti Party.
"Bihar is firmly in the grip of 'jungle raj-2' given spate in crime comprising, murder, loot, dacoity and extortion in the past two months...the people of Bihar are living in an atmosphere of constant fear," he told reporters.
Paswan said his party (LJP) will take stock of the deteriorating law and order situation tonight after returning from his parliamentary constituency, Hajipur, and chalk out programme for statewide agitation on law and order issue.
The date of agitation and its nature will be decided in due course of time, the Union Minister said.
Expressing grief at the prevailing 'lawlessness' in Bihar, he said he was at a loss for words to describe the situation and asked the mediapersons to coin a new phrase to define the prevailing situation in Bihar.
Elaborating on the deteriorating law and order situation, the Union Minister said three engineers, two of them from a road construction company, and several police officials have been killed by the criminals in the past couple of weeks. Even lawmakers are not safe as they receive calls for extortion and are issued threat to their lives if they failed to cough up the money.
Taking a dig at the RJD and its supremo Lalu Prasad, Paswan said the criminals and anti-social elements felt emboldened to take on the law under the present dispensation, including the RJD is a key constituent, they will continue to get patronage from it.
The LJP supremo did not spare Lalu Prasad's two minister sons - Tej Pratap Yadav and Tejaswi Yadav, alleging that two siblings were unable to provide safety and security to their constituents in Vaishali districts. It may be mentioned that Tej Pratap Yadav and Tejaswi Yadav, who is the deputy chief minister in the Nitish Kumar government, represent Mahua and Raghopur assembly seats in Vaishali district.
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