Sharad Yadav Hints at Expelling Anant Singh
Patna: Nov. 4, 2007
Janata Dal (U) national president and former Union Minister Sharad Yadav, reacting to the latest scandal to hit the NDA government in Bihar involving assault on media reporters by party legislator Anant Singh, said the latter's expulsion from the party was not unlikely in the event charges against him were in fact true.
While appearing on a TV interview show in New Delhi on Sunday, Yadav refuted the charges of mis-governance in Bihar.
"If that was the case, Anant Singh would not be in jail right now," he said.
Yadav said he was awaiting reports from the state unit of the party in the reporter-bashing case and in the alleged Reshma Khatoon murder case after which the party would decide the political fate of Anant Singh.
"If charges are proven to be true against Anant Singh, he would be expelled from the party," the party president said.
Meanwhile in Patna, Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi, at the meeting of the working committee of Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) youth front on Sunday, said there was no room for criminals in the state government and anyone with criminal antecedent would be dealt with an iron hand.
Blasting the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) of making a big issue of the Anant Singh incident, Modi said that while the government acted in a swift manner and ordered the arrest of Singh, such crimes like lifting vehicles from auto show-rooms under the Rabri regime were not even reported to the police.
"If this is not good governance then I don't know what it is," Modi said.
"Lalu Prasad Yadav likes to talk about the NDA government not having been able to spend central fund earmarked for various developmental projects. The truth, however, is that while in the entire 15 years of Lalu-Rabri rule, they could barely spend Rs. 2,300 crore on such projects, the NDA government would have spent over Rs. 2,500 crore in less than two and a half years since coming into power in the state," Modi said.
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