JD(U) MP Rajiv Ranjan Singh on Tuesday raised obj🅘ections to the NHRC probing the Bihar hooch tragedy, charging that constitutional institutions were being misuꦕsed.
Singh, who is also the president of the JD(U), asked in Lok Sabha why the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) is probing the Chhapra hooch trage💦dy.
"National Human Rights Commission has info🐎rmed the Bihar government that the hooch deaths in Chhapra will be probed by them. How did the human rights coജmmission come into this?" the Munger MP said.
"Constit🥂utional institutions are being misused," he charged.
However, BJP MP from Patna Sahib and former union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad backed𝔍 the NHRC probe and said the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights should also carry out a probe.
"Over 100 peopleꦏ died of poisonous liquor. There was no post-mortem, and the viscera were not kept. NHRC should go there, Child commission should also go because those who died include children, Dalits, and backward groups. This is a serious issue," Prasad said.
He was supporꦉted by Patliputra MP Ram Kripal Yadav.
Chirag Paswan (LJP), meanwhile, demanded the President's Rule in Bihar alleging that the state g💯overnment is trying to suppress the incidents of death due to spurious liquor and the leader of Mahagatbandhan is sitting quietly.
Janardan Singh꧂ Sigriwal (BJP) demanded compensation f༺or people who died in the hooch tragedy in Bihar.
He said thꦚe NHRC, child rights commission, and National Commission for Women should investigate the hooch tragedy.
The Nitish Kumar government on Monday put the number of deaths in the Saran hooch tragedy 🐭at 38. Opposition BJP leaders have claimed that the toll may have crossed 100.
Chhapra is the dis🍸trict headquarters of the Saran division.
