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Patna,(BiharTimes): This one example is enough to give an idea of the law and order situation in the state. As high as 70 houses of elected representatives of Bihar––ex-ministers, MPs, MLAs and MLCs––have been targeted by thieves in Patna in the last three years. Property worth lakhs, may be crores, have been looted in the process. If the situation is such in the VIP colony of the state capital imagine the predicament of the common citizens living elsewhere in the state. |
The Saansad-Vidhayak (MP-MLA) Cooperative Colony in Kautilya Nagar, near the Jayaprakash Narayan International Airport has houses belonging to an ex-chief minister and former Union ministers, ministers and ex-ministers in the state cabinet, parliamentarians, and ex-parliamentarians, legislators
and ex-legislators. Yet these houses are being burgled quite regularly with the police doing absolutely nothing to check the crime.In some cases more than one houses have been targeted in the same night. For example, on January 26 night, (that is Republic Day), thieves broke into the houses of two former ministers––Ram Lakhan Ram Raman and Shankar Prasad Tekriwal––and Shiv Nandan Paswan, a former deputy chairman of the Bihar Legislative Council.
While they managed to decamped with valuables worth Rs two lakhs from the houses of Raman and Tekriwal––one after the other––they failed in their objective in Paswan’s house as the family members woke up and raised an alarm. The police have launched an operation to nab the thieves but achieved
no success.Incidentally this is not the first incident of its kind to take place in Raman’s house. Both he and Tekriwal are in Rashtriya Janata Dal and were ministers in the Lalu-Rabri regime. These leaders and their family members are literally spending sleepless nights, especially during the winter, as thieves have made their life difficult.
This colony has the house of former chief minister Lalu Prasad, former Union ministers Ram Vilas Paswan and Raghuvansh Prasad Singh and present minister in the Nitish Kumar government, Satyadeo Arya. Apart from this colony elected representatives living elsewhere are also being targeted. Only a few months back the official residence of the then Janata Dal (United) MLC, Prem Kumar Mani, was targeted by the thieves. However, here too the family members woke up to foil the attempt. Mani squarely blamed chief minister Nitish Kumar for the incident. He was a prominent dissident and has now left the Janata Dal (United).
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