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Political lines get blurred as Bihar lawmakers demand CBI probe into Sushant s death

Last Updated 03 August 2020, 11:34 IST

The issue of Sushant Singh Rajput's death rocked one-day Bihar Assembly session on Monday with both the ruling party as well Opposition vociferously demanding a CBI probe to unravel the truth.

Leaders cutting across party lines were miffed with Maharashtra Government and its police after knowing that the IPS officer Vinay Tiwary, who went to Mumbai to probe into Sushant's death case, was quarantined for 14 days.

"The nation wants to know the truth in Sushant's case," said Leader of the Opposition Tejashwi Yadav, while reiterating CBI probe demand as sought by BJP MLA Neeraj Kumar, who is also Sushant's cousin. Tejashwi also suggested to the Government that the upcoming Film City near Rajgir be named after Sushant Singh Rajput, a pride of Bihar.

The Assembly session, the last one of the present 16th Vidhan Sabha, was held at the Samrat Ashoka Convention Centre in Gyan Bhavan. This was for the first time in the history of Bihar that a session had to be held outside the premises of Vidhan Sabha, a decision taken unanimously due to the pandemic.

The one-day session saw the Nitish Kumar government on the mat on the issue of poor handling of Covid-19 pandemic and flood. Tejashwi questioned Nitish why the Chief Minister failed to lead from the front during such pandemic.

"Your government remained busy with fudging figures on Covid-19 cases, while the affected ones ran from pillar to post to get medical help," Tejashwi was unsparing in his criticism of the State Government.

Nitish's Health Minister Mangal Pandey retorted by saying "the Covid-19 tests in Bihar have increased to around 35,000 per day from 12,000 last month and recovery rate was 65 per cent."

Nitish announced that the family member of those who died while serving during a pandemic would get a Government job or retirement benefits.

Earlier, in the day Chief Minister Nitish Kumar took exception to Mumbai Police asking one of the Bihar's IPS officer Vinay Tiwary to quarantine himself for 14 days as a mandate by BMC (Brihan-Mumbai Municipal Corporation) and termed it "not fair.". He asked Bihar DGP Gupteshwar Pandey to speak to his Maharashtra counterpart and resolve the issue.

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(Published 03 August 2020, 10:10 IST)

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