GAYA: Known for its skill in grabbing even minor issues to score brownie points over friend turned foe Nitish Kumar, BJP's silence on the Dobhi integrated check-post mega racket has baffled Magadh watchers. More than two weeks after the registration of a criminal case against alleged racket kingpin Aurangzeb and his associates, the principal opposition party has maintained an intriguing silence and done virtually nothing to apply pressure on the police machinery to nab the culprits and take the probe to its logical end.As per conservative unofficial estimates, the racket going on for years caused an annual loss of about Rs 200 crores to the state exchequer through tax non/under payment, allowing excessive overloading and several other violations of the Motor Transport Act, Sales Tax laws, Forest Laws, Mining Laws, weight and Measurement rules, Prevention of Cruelty towards Animal Act (a sizeable number of trucks crossing the Dobhi Check Post carry cattle in a clandestine manner) and sundry other laws.Throwing light on BJP's silence on the racket, activist Shri Bhagwan alleged that the mafia patrons included politicians of different political parties and call data records, if revealed, will bring embarrassment to the BJP as well. Moreover, the racket was going from the days when BJP shared power with Nitish Kumar and important portfolios were held by BJP ministers in the Nitish cabinet, said Bhaskar.Agreeing that the party should have been pro active on the check post racket issue, senior BJP leader and former minister Prem Kumar, claimed that he once raised the issue in the assembly. However, Kumar did not give any reason for BJP's perceived indifference on the all important issue. He would take up the issue in internal party forums, said Kumar. 'Personally' he appreciated the good work being done by Magadh Range DIG Shalin to bring the racketeers to book, said the former minister.According to well placed sources, besides political patronage, the racketeers also enjoyed police and bureaucratic support and call records show innumerable calls to link the racketeers to a very senior police officer, said to enjoy very good rapport with BJP leadership. Perhaps that may have also caused slow witted response from the BJP, feel Magadh watchers.Observers of the Magadh scene also say that this is the second time the BJP has been found wanting on important issues. Earlier the party, remained uncharacteristically silent after the kidnapping of the kin of former state chief of the party Gopal Narain Singh from the Barachatti police station area ostensibly to facilitate a negotiated (read paid) release of the kidnapping case victim.The silence of the major opposition party prompted the kidnappers to replay the same act to kidnap the Gaya doctor. Like Prem Kumar, former deputy CM Sushil Modi too post facto regretted the lapse in the kidnapping case.