Giriraj Singh meeting with riot accused not acceptable: Nitish

TIL Desk/National/ Patna/ Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has said Union minister Giriraj Singh’s meeting with jailed Bajrang Dal members in Nawada district was ‘not acceptable’ and made it clear that his government would not tolerate any attempts to disturb communal harmony in the state.

Singh, who represents Nawada in the Lok Sabha, had on Saturday called on the jailed activists, one of whom was arrested recently in connection with a communal flare-up that took place last year, and the remaining were held while trying to enforce a bandh in protest.

His visit to the Bajrang Dal members in the jail came close on the heels of Union minister Jayant Sinha felicitating eight convicts in the Ramgarh lynching case after they came out of prison on bail in Jharkhand.

The firebrand Bharatiya Janata Party leader had told reporters yesterday at the house of one of the jailed Bajrang Dal activist that he saw the arrests as an ‘attempt to suppress the Hindus’, even when the other side was at fault and remarked that he ‘felt helpless’ at not being able to do anything in this regard though his party was in the ruling coalition in the state.