When Amit Shah gets to Bihar, BJP and JD(U) trade accusations regarding the postponement of Sasaram's visit.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah traveled to Bihar on Saturday as the BJP and Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's JD(U) traded accusations about communal disturbances that caused him to cancel one of the April 2 programs.
Ankush Pandey
Union Home Minister Amit Shah traveled to Bihar on Saturday as the BJP and Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's JD(U) traded accusations about communal disturbances that caused him to cancel one of the April 2 programs.
Shah is staying at a city hotel, where he met with leaders of the state BJP in the late evening.
He will attend a function of the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) on Sunday morning before traveling 120 kilometers to Hisua in the Nawada district to address a public meeting.
Broadly viewed as the BJP's primary specialist, Shah was likewise booked to partake in a capability in Sasaram town of Rohtas region, which has been put off considering public savagery that started Thursday night during Ram Navami celebrations and went on till Friday.
The Sasaram event was promoted as a celebration of Asoka the Great's birthday, the Mauryan emperor who has become an OBC icon in Bihar, which has been the real-world testing ground for Mandal politics.
The Nitish Kumar government refuted the BJP leaders' claim that Section 144 of the CrPC was imposed "deliberately" in Sasaram with the intention of preventing Shah from performing his duties.
In a video statement, Rohtas District Magistrate Dharmendra Kumar said: Section 144 never came into effect. Neither I nor the Sub Divisional Magistrate in question issued any such order. Friday evening saw the complete restoration of order in Sasaram. We did use restrictions, such as cutting off internet access for a day.
Despite this, the state BJP posted videos to its social media accounts in which police officers could be seen advising the general public to remain indoors and announcing that "Section 144 has been imposed."
"We have issued show cause notices to such police personnel," the DM stated. They stated that they sent the message in an effort to control the situation.
The comedy of errors, on the other hand, did not sit well with the BJP, and the chief minister's insinuation that "instructions are in place to track down those who indulged in mischief to cause the disturbances that were unusual and unnatural" only aggravated matters.
By going to the Raj Bhavan, where a memorandum was presented to Governor Rajendra Arlekar, the saffron party expressed its outrage.
The memorandum, signed by close to 30 senior leaders and attributed the cancellation of Shah's program to the "extreme incompetence and failure of the administration," included statements from state BJP chief Samrat Choudhary and Assembly Leader Vijay Kumar Sinha.
However, the supremo of the JD(U) and a BJP ally for less than a year, Kumar, held the following viewpoint: I couldn't figure out why he came in the first place. Additionally, I am baffled as to why he is not traveling to Sasaram.
"Shah's program has been canceled since the BJP was wary of not being able to manage sizeable crowds in Sasaram," stated JD(U) spokesperson Himraj Ram in a statement.
Since the BJP lost control of the state in August of last year when Kumar walked over to the Mahagathbandhan, which included the RJD, Congress, and the Left, this is Shah's fourth trip to Bihar.
Even though the BJP has swept Bihar in the last three general elections, including the one in 2009, when the coalition had performed poorly nationally, it faces a difficult task in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections with the NDA in disarray.
