CPIML Bihar State Secretary Kunal on 14 September condemned the shooting in Beguserai by criminals injuring 10 people and killing one person. In view of the nature of the crime he demanded a high level enquiry into the incident.
The incident of indescriminate firing on a long stretch of highway by motorcycle borne persons in which one innocent was killed and dozens injured needs deeper investigation. Four persons have been arrested by the police who have direct links with the BJP party. One Naga Singh who has been arrested is the son of a local BJP leader.
CPIML Bihar state secretary Kunal has demanded from the Bihar government an investigation into the actual motives of the criminals. He said that it appears to be a conspiratorial crime intended to spread terror among the common people, especially the downtrodden, dalits and poor. This is not an ordinary crime he reiterated.
Comrade Kunal told to the media persons in Patna that BJP MPs Giriraj Singh and Rakesh Kumar Sinha are openly speaking in favour of the arrested shooters. This indicates towards a BJP conspiracy and must be investigated. He demanded to include these two BJP members of parliament under the ambit of an investigation. He said that the BJP is trying to spread hatred and terror in Bihar in order to create political instability and appealed to people to rebuff any such attempt.
Comrade Kunal further said that the enquiry should also probe the aspects of a BJP conspiracy because the BJP is desperate after being ousted from power in Bihar and the possibility that such incidents are a result of a conspiracy hatched by them cannot be dismissed out of hand. The BJP has been found to be implicated in the various recent demolitions of the jhuggis of the poor. They were also implicated in inciting communal passions at Badharia in Siwan.
Meanwhile, party leaders including District Secretary Diwakar Prasad, RYA General Secretary Neeraj Kumar, Nawal Kishore, Baiju Singh and Rajesh Shrivastava visited the persons injured in the shooting and spoke with them at Begusarai Sadar hospital. They met Jeeto Paswan and Gautam Kumar Pathak who were undergoing treatment. One of the 10 injured persons has died. Two are admitted in Beguserai Sadar hospital, four in private nursing homes and three have been referred to Patna PMCH.
The CPIML also asked for the comprehensive treatment for the injured at government expense and Rs 5 lakhs each as compensation, and Rs 20 lakhs compensation and a government job for the kin of the deceased who lost his life in the shooting.
