All in a fix over Madhubani

The civil and police administration of Madhubani, Government and opposition parties have been found to be in a fix over the eruption of violence and the torching of government properties and loss of lives in the district. It was virtually shortsightedness of the government and total failure of the administration in handling the developing situation arising from the recovery of a decapitated body. The three days of total lawlessness, police firing, loss of two innocent lives and torching of government properties in Madhubani district of Bihar over the recovery of beheaded body presumed to be of a teen-aged school boy of class 10th who had been missing since September 7, which turned out to be a case elopement with the appearance of the boy with the girl in Delhi in the evening of Oct 15 as claimed by Delhi police. With the recovery of a decapitated body, violence on large-scale gripped the whole of Madhubani district of Bihar. Students went on rampage to protest the high-handedness of Madhubani police in the case. The entire opposition called Bihar Bandh yesterday to lodge their protest against police firing in which two innocent lives were reportedly lost. It was a total bandh. While the teenager was traced to New Delhi along with a girl with whom he had eloped. This is the glaring example of district police and civil administration failure. Had they handled the case judiciously and felt the sensitivity of the situation,Madhubani would not have burnt for three days. The district administration of Madhubani has totally failed in keeping the situation under control. The day the beheaded body was recovered, the tension prevailed in Madhubani. The body was disfigured and because of that the teen aged boy's family members including his mother mistook it to be of her son's dead body. Now the question arises why the dead body was kept in the morgue for more than 72 hours. Why the administration did not cremate it after 72 hours the day it was recovered. What were the police doing all these days? The police should have immediately made intensive investigation to make identification of the dead body. The graph of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is going down and down since he embarked on Adhikar Yatra to demand the Special Status for Bihar. During his Adhikar Yatra, the black flags and the slippers were thrown at him by contractual teachers. It clearly reflects that the discontentment among the people of Bihar has started setting in against his Government. Nitish Kumar came to power to restore normalcy, rule of law and bring the state on development track. He initiated rightly in the beginning but lost the way in his second term and developed arrogance. The people harboured high aspiration and expectation of his government. Though there has been development in all spheres in the state and on the front of electricity and investment from outside, the situation has gone down and down and consequently disillusionment descended on the people. They have now started thinking that their dreams and hopes have been dashed to the ground. And if the crowd thronged at RJD supremo Lalu Yadav public meeting in the state these days is anything to go by, the warning bells have started ringing for Chief Minister Nitish Kumar to cast off his dictatorial style of functioning with giving priority to bureaucrat over public representatives.