FIR against Shah unjustified: BJP

Patna: BJP general secretary Bhupender Yadav on Wednesday said filing FIR against BJP president Amit Shah was unjustified and the party would challenge it before the Election Commission (EC).
Yadav, who is also in charge of BJP’s Bihar affairs, said his party would complain to the EC how the Begusarai DM had erred in ordering the lodging of an FIR against Shah who had not done any wrong by calling RJD chief Lalu Prasad a ‘chaara chor’.
Shah used the term for Lalu who had been convicted by the court in a fodder scam case, Yadav said, adding the court had held the RJD chief guilty of ‘gaban (embezzlement)’ of the department’s money.
“Another word for ‘gaban’ is ‘chori (thievery)’. Shah, therefore, was justified in calling Lalu a ‘chaara chor’, and had not violated any standing law,” Yadav said, adding: “We have the right to present all the facts before the EC. Moreover, the IPC Sections against Shah were disproportionate to the acts of violation of the standing law, if it was that.”
Yadav also took exception to chief minister Nitish Kumar’s Tuesday public speeches, as published in a Hindi newspaper, in which he said, “Bones are being thrown to cause social disharmony; that the BJP wants to be in election by causing conflagration in society; and that the BJP people can throw bones in temples and mosques to cause social disharmony among people.”
He said the Bihar chief electoral officer (CEO) should order the administration concerned to lodge an FIR against Nitish for making “provocative and inflammatory speeches”.
In a related reaction, former deputy CM Sushil Kumar Modi tweeted on Wednesday, “Lalu has been rearing some cows not to tend them, but to hide black money that came to him through fodder scam. He has no faith in cow-rearing and, therefore, talks about beef-eating. He should explain if his sons and daughters could make cow dung cakes, and if they knew how to milk a cow.”
In yet another tweet, Modi said, “By saying that a meat-eater does not make any difference between beef and goat meet, Lalu has accepted that he, occasionally, takes beef.”
Modi referred to Lalu’s order to elevate murder accused Ritlal Yadav to RJD general secretary post, and tweeted that the latter took part in a procession of his brother Tinku Yadav who was going to file his nomination papers from Danapur on Tuesday. “Can Nitish stop jungle raj –II?” Modi asked.
“He (Lalu) has no quality of a good administrator, but had all the bad qualities of the mythological Kans,” he tweeted again.