The LJP president accused the Nitish Kumar government of failing to handle the crisis arising out of the Maoists holding captive policemen during Sunday's Lakhisarai encounter
LJP president Ram Vilas Paswan today accused Nitish Kumar government of failing to handle the crisis arising out of the Maoists holding captive policemen during Sunday's Lakhisarai encounter and appealed to the ultras to release the innocent personnel.
"Nitish Kumar government is responsible for spread of the activities of the Maoists from originally six districts to 25 districts now... it has failed to handle the crisis created by the ultras", Paswan told reporters here.
Asking the state goverment to come out with the details of what had gone wrong that led to Maoists killing innocent policemen and kidnapping of four others, Paswan said reports suggested that +unarmed+ policemen were deployed at the time of encounter near Kajra on sunday.
Most securitymen involved in the encounter were "unarmed and untrained", he said and added that "it seems that policemen went there not to fight the Maoists but to arrest some small criminals."
"It is the state government which is reponsible for the deaths", he said, and asked Nitish Kumar to explain as to what were the initiatives he took to handle the situation after the Maoists held captive four policemen.
"Kumar sat idle since sunday and all of a sudden made a plea yesterday for talks with the Maoists.... the talks could have been held much earlier", he said.
The spread of Maoist terror in Bihar had exposed the claim of the chief minister that the state was on the path of development, Paswan alleged.
Had the development taken place at all, the fruits of it would have percolated down to the poor and it would have come handy in checking the growing menace of naxalism, the LJP president said.
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