Nitish has forgotten morality, says JP Nadda on police action on BJP workers in Patna

Security personnel baton charge BJP supporters during their protest march. Pic/PTI

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president J P Nadda on Thursday hit out at the Bihar government over the police action on party workers in Patna.

According to the PTI, JP Nadda said that Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has forgotten his "mortality" in his bid to save his deputy Tejashwi Yadav, against whom a charge sheet has been filed by the CBI in a land-for-job scam.

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Nadda's reaction came after police used tear gas shells and water cannons to disperse thousands of BJP workers, including senior leaders, who tried to march towards the Bihar Vidhan Sabha in protest against the government's teacher recruitment policy.

"The lathi charge on BJP workers in Patna is the result of the failure and nervousness of the state government," JP Nadda said in a tweet in Hindi.

"The grand alliance government is attacking democracy to save the citadel of corruption. The Chief Minister of Bihar has even forgotten his morality in order to save the person who has been charge sheeted," he charged, according to the PTI.

Meanwhile, a controversy broke out over the death of a Bihar BJP leader following a police lathi charge during the party's march towards the assembly here on Thursday.

BJP alleged that its Jehanabad district general secretary succumbed to injuries suffered in a "brutal" lathi charge by the police, prompting the local administration to issue a quick rebuttal.

In a statement, the district administration in Patna said Vijay Kumar Singh, a resident of Jehanabad district, was "found unconscious by the roadside".

"No injury marks have been found on his body," said the statement adding that Singh has been taken to PMCH, the state's largest government hospital.

Nonetheless, rumours were aflutter that Singh, who had come here to join the "Vidhan Sabha march" against the Nitish Kumar government's teacher recruitment policy, had died.

"Arrested by Bihar police in Patna, Jehanabad dist GS Vijay Kumar Singh died in brutal police lathi charge", senior BJP leader and former deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi tweeted.

BJP president JP Nadda claimed in a tweet that the lathi charge on BJP workers in Patna is the result of the failure and indignation of the state government.

(with PTI inputs)