BJP demands ban on CPI-ML for Chaurma bloodbath

He said ‘on January 6 the party general secretary Vinod Mishra had instigated the bloody revenge for the Bathe massacre. Asserting that the CPI-ML has got no moral right to remain in the fray for the election, Mody strongly demanded to put a ban on the organisation.

He said the landlords of the village had already surrendered to the dictates of the naxals and they were facing economic blockade for the last four years. He also denied the government version that there was a land dispute in the village. Mody was quite harsh with Director General of Police S K Saxena and Chief Secretary B P Verma and urged the Election commission to remove them before the election process formally starts. He pointed out that it was the inefficiency of DGP that has prompted the Chief Minister to remove him within four days in the wake of Bathe massacre.

He expressed his apprehensions that with these two bureaucrats in office, none could guarantee a violence-free election in Bihar.

He said already the two major extremist organisations have given the call for election boycott and so far combing operations have proved to be a failure. In this background there was no guarantee that large scale violent actions would not take place in South and central Bihar, he pointed out.

He alleged that combing operation was merely an eye wash and the real intentions behind the Government allowing the situation to take an ugly turn was to let a caste war grip the state which would to help the RJD in the polls.

Mody held that the anxiety expressed by President K R Narayanan on Chauram massacre was enough to initiate stringent measures, but so far the State Government has not responded to the situation.