Bihar Higher Area passes police Invoice as Opposition boycotts complaints over forceful eviction

The Bihar Legislative Council handed the Bihar Particular Armed Police Invoice, 2021, even because the RJD-led Opposition boycotted complaints in each Properties of the state legislature on Wednesday, protesting towards the style wherein its MLAs have been evicted from the Meeting an afternoon ahead of. The RJD demanded an apology from Leader Minister Nitish Kumar for the forceful eviction of the opposition MLAs.

The Invoice used to be handed within the Meeting Tuesday night in spite of the Opposition’s makes an attempt to stall its presentation. Even though the RJD nonetheless had a possibility to oppose the Invoice within the Council, the place it has six participants, and insist a debate or counsel amendments, it boycotted the complaints.

Opposition legislators led by way of Chief of Opposition Tejashwi Prasad Yadav sat on a dharna out of doors the legislature on Wednesday. They were given RJD MLA Bhudeo Choudhary to serve as as speaker to run mock procceedings in protest towards the alleged misbehaviour with no less than seven MLAs whilst they have been being marshalled out of the Meeting on Tuesday.

“I’m really not going to go back to the Area till Leader Minister Nitish Kumar apologises for misconduct of his police power,” stated Tejashwi. He stated the passing of the police Invoice would pave the way in which for “police raj, giving it unbridled powers”.

The Opposition additionally paraded 12 MLAs, seven of whom suffered accidents whilst they have been being marshalled out on Tuesday for protesting towards the Invoice within the Meeting. Former leader minister and RJD chief Rabri Devi accused the police of misbehaving with the ladies legislators all through the process being marshalled out.

The ladies MLAs who have been marshalled out incorporated RJD MLAs Anita Devi and Manju Devi, and Congress’s Pratima Kumari. The 3 MLAs, at the side of two different girls MLAs, had approached the Speaker’s chair after Chief of Opposition Tejashwi returned to the Area after staging a protest out of doors round 4.30 pm on Tuesday.

Tejashwi’s go back to the Meeting intensified the Opposition protest towards the police Invoice, which had until then compelled a few adjournments. Whilst RJD’s Mohammed Kamran and CPI (ML)’s Mehboob Alam led the Opposition rate, every other RJD MLA, Bhai Virendra, tore a replica of the Invoice within the presence of performing speaker Prem Kumar. Some other RJD MLA, Satyendra Yadav, unsuccessfully attempted to take hold of a replica of the Invoice from Deputy Leader Minister Tarkishore Prasad.

The unruly scenes resulted in the eviction of the protesting MLAs from the Area. On the other hand, a number of of the legislators – together with RJD’s Makdumpur MLA Satish Kumar, RJD Ramgarh MLA Sudhakar Singh and Congress’s Karahgar MLA Santosh Mishra – accused the police of manhandling them.

Satish Kumar, who fainted whilst being marshalled out, stated: “This is a case of police extra. We have been driven and pinned to the bottom.” His party colleague Sudhakar Singh made identical allegations. In a video that went viral Tuesday night, Singh is noticed being dragged out at the side of Kumar.

A state Meeting respectable stated: “As the placement used to be getting out of regulate, we needed to name further forces, together with Fast Motion Power workforce. A complete of 12 MLAs have been marshalled out. Those that resisted needed to be dragged out. However none of them suffered any critical accidents.”

Leader Minister Nitish Kumar stated: “The Opposition may have requested for debate and waited for our clarification. I’ve been a legislator since 1985 and feature no longer noticed Opposition behaving find it irresistible.”

Meeting Speaker Vijay Kumar Sinha stated: “What came about within the Area on Tuesday is unlucky and presentations the Opposition’s offensive and irresponsible behaviour. The Chief of Opposition may have proven adulthood in coping with the placement.”

Former minister and ruling JD(U) spokesperson Neeraj Kumar stated: “3 states have already handed a identical Invoice. We handiest intention at elevating a specialized power to reduce our dependence on central forces.”