NHRC step over Bihar hooch tragedy part of BJP's propaganda: Tejashwi Yadav

Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav has alleged that the National Human Rights Commissions action in the Saran hooch case was part of a propaganda carried out to defame the Nitish Kumar government at the BJPs behestThe state government has confirmed 38 deaths in Saran making it the biggest hooch tragedy in the state since it went dry in April 2016 The figure has been hotly contested by the BJP which has claimed that more than 100 people have diedYadav who also holds the health portfolio was asked by reporters about the Saran visit of a team of the NHRC which had last week slapped the government with a notice after the deaths caused by spurious liquor consumptionThe BJP is scared at the pace we are working towards fulfilling the promise of providing 10 lakh jobs Today itself the cabinet has approved recruitment of more than 75000 personnel in the home department Yadav said after a department function late on Tuesday eveningShortly 15 lakh posts in the health department and another two lakh in the education department will also be filled up he saidAlso Read Hooch claimed 38 lives in Saran higher death figures misleading Bihar ministerA propaganda is underway to defame this government I wonder whether the NHRC delegates have come on their own accord or they have been sent by those pulling the strings Why did the Commission never care to visit Madhya Pradesh and Haryana where more hooch deaths have taken place than in Bihar by the Centres own admission in Parliament asked YadavHe said he was not sure whether the NHRC has the mandate to take suo motu cognisance of matters such as hooch tragedies in a stateBut if it does have the mandate it should show similar enthusiasm in other states too added the RJD leader whose party MP Manoj Jha has written a letter to the Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman complaining of the partisan attitude of the CommissionThe BJP had disrupted the fiveday winter session of the state assembly that ended on Monday demanding compensation to the family members of the deceasedThe state government has turned down the demand stating that since consumption of alcohol was banned in Bihar those who had died were guilty of committing an illegal actThe BJP which lost power in the state in August after Chief Minister Nitish Kumars exit from the NDA has announced that it will stage a demonstration on the Vidhan Sabha premises on Wednesday in protest against the bias shown by the Chair towards the ruling alliance whenever the opposition party tried to raise its voiceMeanwhile the saffron party also took potshots at Yadav over an RJD MLC having been caught on camera saying that the young Deputy CM was fond of liquor and would do away with prohibition if he were to form a government on his ownAt a press conference Leader of Opposition in the state Legislative Council Samrat Chaudhary demanded that the CM take action against his deputy in the wake of the iqueststing operationiquest of RJD MLC Rambali Singh ChandravanshiYadav in his speech at the function alluded to the affair with the remark Sting operations are going on I am not going to stop anybody from carrying out these I know that the agenda is set at another levelThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever