JD(U) invokes Ishrat’s Bihar link to poke BJP

“It was only during an informal conversation with a common acquaintance that I had come to know Ishrat’s Bihar link. Though we had always been raising the fake encounter case,her Bihar background gives us more reasons to share the concerns of her family for a fair probe,” Anwar said. He said with an aggressive BJP attacking the CBI probe,the party “should tell if it was on side of a daughter of Bihar or the Gujarat government”.

Shamima hails from Jamalpur and her brother Mujib-ur-Rahman is a lab technician in the National Institute of Technology,Patna. “Ishrat’s case has brought so much pain and tribulations to her relatives that her uncle has gone on leave to avoid the media,” Anwar said.

Senior BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad said,“Why all of a sudden JD(U) has been talking of Ishrat being a daughter of Bihar? Why did not Nitish Kumar talk of Bihar connection when Muslim youths from Madhubani and Darbhanga were arrested with IM links. Why didn’t JD(U) talk of Patna boy Rahul Raj who was killed in police encounter in Mumbai a few years ago?”

He said a state government that could not help former minister Ashwini Kumar Choubey when he was trapped in Kedarnath has no moral authority to talk of Bihar connection. Prasad said the BJP wanted a debate on fake encounters.

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