Tejashwi detects anomalies in the Munger election
Tejashwi Prasad Yadav, the leader of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and a former deputy chief minister of Bihar, accused anomalies during Monday’s vote in the Munger Lok Sabha seat on Tuesday.
On Monday, Munger and four other seats held their fourth round of voting.
In Munger, RJD’s Kumari Anita, the spouse of muscleman Ashok Mehto, is up against JD(U) former president and current MP Rajiv Ranjan Singh, also known as Lalan Singh. Mehto served a 17-year term for his involvement in the Nawada prison escape case before being freed from custody.
Prior to the election, Tejashwi also questioned the parole release of Mokama strongman and former MLA Anant Singh. Due to his health and the completion of the partition of his family land, he has been granted a 15-day parole period.
Neelam Devi, the wife of Anant, won the by-election to the Mokama assembly seat in the Patna district on an RJD ticket. However, on February 12 of this year, she cast a cross-vote in support of the NDA administration when Chief Minister Nitish Kumar asked for a trust vote in the assembly.
Tejashwi said, “It is really ‘Jungle Raj’ in Bihar,” without identifying Anant. Voters for our party were prevented from casting ballots, our party candidate’s car was damaged, and Mokama muscleman supporters attacked our party officials.
“The Chief Minister had said that those who came to power in 2014 would have to leave it in 2024,” the RJD leader added, taking aim at Nitish. We are doing that task, whatever it is that he (Nitish) has taught us. He is fully assisting us and rewarding us.
In the meanwhile, the RJD has also sent a note to the CEO of Bihar in which it claims that voters from lower sections were denied the opportunity to cast ballots in a significant number of Munger polling booths by JD(U) supporters.
According to State RJD spokesman Chitranjan Gagan, his party protested against the printing of newspaper ads in which PM Narendra Modi was purportedly asking for votes for the BJP in a memorandum that was filed to the EC.
