The Opposition Bhartiya Janata Party on Monday launched all-round attack on Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar over abduction of a prominent doctor of Gaya district and his entrepreneur wife. Both were kidnapped on Friday when they were returning to Gaya from a marriage ceremony of a relative in Jharkhand in their luxurious car.
The daylight kidnapping of doctor Pankaj Kumar Gupta and his wife Subhra Gupta, who runs a famous boutique in Gaya town, has put the Nitish government’s claim over improved law and situation in the state in dock.
The local BJP workers led by party MLA Prem Kumar on Monday showed black flags to Nitish Kumar when he visited Mahabodhi temple in Bodh Gaya to participate in a ceremony on Buddha Purnima. The protesting BJP workers also raised ant-government slogans and demanded immediate recovery of the doctor couple.
Earlier, senior state BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi had visited the residence of the abducted doctor couple in Gaya town and asked the state government for the immediate and safe release of them “from wherever they would be”.
However, the BJP leader and union minister Radha Mohan Singh said that the spate of kidnapping in the state now has clearly indicated the advent of “jungle raj-2” in Bihar.
Former state chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi too visited the family members of he abducted doctor couple and later slammed Nitish government for failing to control law and order situation in the state. The doctor comes from a prominent business family of Gaya town.
Taking kidnapping of one of their colleague the Bihar unit of the Indian Medical Association (IMA) too has threatened to go on strike. Earlier, the IMA had given the police 72-hours to crack the case failing which they would launch an agitation against the police and the government as well.
“We’ll be meeting soon and take a decision on it. It’s a matter of serious concern that even after three days there is no clue of the kidnapped doctor and his wife’s whereabouts,” Dr Shahjanand Singh of Bihar unit of IMA told The Hindu.
Bihar Health Services Association (BHSA) president Dr Ajay Kumar ha given 48-hour ultimatum to Nitish for the safe release of the abducted Gaya doctor. “Otherwise we too would be forced to go on strike,” he said.
