PATNA: Leader of opposition Tejashwi Prasad Yadav on Saturday said the case of rape with 34 minor girls at the state-funded shelter home at Muzaffarpur was not solitary incident of sexual exploitation of girls in Bihar .

He said, similar reports were pouring in from the government-funded short-stay homes at Banka, Saran, Darbhanga , Gopalganj and Vaishali districts.

Making a stinging remark against the state’s JD(U)-led NDA government, Tejashwi also said If all the allegations around orphanages, shelter homes and remand homes of the state are thoroughly and honestly investigated, half the JDU and BJP leaders would be politically finished or behind the bars. “Every Bihari knows this truth,” he said.

Tejashwi was talking to media persons near Gaya district’s Bela town in Bihar, hours after launch of his three-day “NDA Bhagao- Beti Bachao” cycle march from Gaya to Patna. The cycle march has been organised to highlight the recent incident of rape of minor girls at Muzaffarpur shelter home and alleged “failures” of the Nitish Kumar-led NDA government in Bihar.

The cycle march being led by Tejashwi, is scheduled to reach Patna in the evening of July 30. After reaching Patna, Tejashwi will call on the Governor Satya Pal Malik at the Raj Bhavan and submit to him a memorandum highlighting the failures of the year-old JD(U)-led coalition government. The march, scheduled to begin from Gaya’s Gandhi Maidan at 10.30 am, got delayed by several hours due to incessant rains in and around Gaya town.

Taking a swipe at CM Nitish Kumar ’s “call of inner voice”, Tejashwi said, “Antaratma has slipped into a deep convenient sleep! It will wake up only when CM's chair is in danger! He won't rise to safeguard the interests of Bihari, to save women from crime, criminals and rapists!”

He said, the CM’s silence over incidents like Muzaffarpur shelter home was “criminal.”

"Women of Bihar are in no mood to forgive ‘Paltu Chacha’ for creating such a hostile and unsafe environment in the state for them to roam freely or go about their normal work fearlessly!," Tejashwi, younger son of RJD chief Lalu Prasad, said.

He also urged Nitish to opt out of politics. “Chacha (uncle) bow out of politics with whatever little honour left for you.”

He further slammed the law and order situation in Bihar saying “Yahan toh Draupadi ka cheerharan ho raha hai, Duryodhana kar raha hai. Sita maiya ka apharan Ravana kar raha hai. Yahan toh Rakshas Raj kaayam ho gaya hai. Ravana aur Duryodhana ki sarkar chal rahi hai. (Here, Draupadi was being insulted by Duryodhana. Sita Maiya is being abducted by Ravana. Demon rule has been established. Ravana and Duryodhna are running the government.)”

