Lok Janshakti Birthday celebration (Ram Vilas) leader Chirag Paswan on Saturday slammed Bihar Leader Minister Nitish Kumar over deaths in Bihar because of intake of illicit liquor and accused upper officers within the state of being part of the racket.
“The Leader Minister must resolution why alcohol remains to be to be had to the general public in Bihar. He would possibly not resolution this query as a result of upper officers of the state are a part of the racket and Nitish Kumar is understood to run the federal government via his officers,” stated Paswan in a press convention.
Additional accusing that Nitish Kumar runs his govt via an ivory tower the place he does not get right kind data of Bihar, Paswan stated, “He does not cross and meet households of sufferers, this is why he does not know the truth. He sits in his ivory tower the place he does no longer get the proper data from his officers.”
“Our birthday celebration leaders visited Gopalganj, Datia and Muzzarfarpur the place many of us were died after eating the illicit liquor. I met the circle of relatives of those sufferers. On a daily basis any person or the opposite is death as a result of this in Bihar which does come into the foray,” Paswan stated.
“It is been 5 years for the reason that regulation banning alcohol in Bihar has been handed however nonetheless has no longer been carried out within the state correctly,” he added.
Just lately, deaths had been reported in some districts of Bihar after folks there fed on illicit liquor.
As in step with Bihar Police, a complete of 49,900 instances had been registered in numerous districts of Bihar after engaging in particular raids below the State Prohibition and Excise (Modification) Act-2018 from January 2021 to October 2021 and a complete of 38,72,645 litres of illicit liquor had been recovered and confiscated within the state.
