JD(U) MLA's husband snatched police carbine at Khagaria

PATNA: Former MLA Ranvir Yadav on Thursday wielded a carbine at Khagaria to disperse the angry protesters who were pelting the government officials' vehicles with stones and shouting slogans against chief minister Nitish Kumar during his 'Adhikar Yatra' in the trouble-torn town.
Footages shown by various news channels on Friday clearly depict Ranvir wielding a carbine after snatching the firearm from a policeman on duty while marching towards the 'Adhikar Yatra' venue.The policeman, whose carbine was forcibly snatched by Ranvir, had to plead with him to get back his firearm.
TV footages show Ranvir even firing in the air to disperse the crowd of protesters, who were adamant on attacking the cavalcade of the CM. Later, Ranvir also snatched a stick from a constable and attacked the protesters to drive them away from the road through which the CM's cavalcade was to pass.
The husband of present Janata Dal (U) MLA from Khagaria, Poonam Yadav, Ranvir is famous in public as a 'bahubali' and convicted offender of infamous Lakshmipur-Taufir diara carnage of 1985. As per police records, Ranvir and his men had hacked nine persons to death and thrown their bodies into the Ganga in the carnage after plundering and burning over 200 houses of poor families.
Ranvir himself had won the assembly election from Khagaria seat in 1990 as an independent candidate, defeating his nearest rival Satyadev Singh of Congress. However, he lost the elections in 1995 to Chandramukhi Devi of BJP. As MLA during 1990-95, Ranvir remained associated with the then Janata Dal.
In the next elections held in 2000, Chandramukhi Devi, too, lost the elections to Yogendra Singh of the CPM. In February 2005 assembly elections, Ranvir fielded his wife Poonam Yadav as the LJP candidate, who won the polls defeating Chandramukhi Devi of the BJP. In November 2005, Poonam Yadav, along with several other LJP MLAs, switched their allegiance to the JD (U) and won the assembly elections as JD (U) candidate, defeating Geeta Yadav of the CPM.
Again in 2010, Poonam Yadav won the assembly elections from Khagaria for the third time defeating Sushila Devi of LJP. In all these three elections, locals say, Poonam was virtually a dummy. Actual election was fought between the muscle power of Ranvir and his rivals.