BJP seeks guv’s intervention to better law & order in state

Ranchi: Opposition BJP on Monday urged governor Ramesh Bais to help curb growing incidents of crime against women and minors.
State BJP president and Rajya Sabha MP Deepak Prakash wrote a letter to Bais, listing over a dozen crime incidents in the recent months.
Earlier in the day, he along with other partymen, visited a government school in Ormanjhi on Ranchi outskirts where armed intruders from another community threatened school staff at an event last week and harassed women students.
Prakash said, “This is yet another testimony of growing lawlessness in the state. BJP is concerned about the deteriorating law and order situation. We are urging the governor to direct the state to take stringent action and curb such incidents.”
In his letter, Prakash also claimed that over 5,000 incidents of crime against women and children have been reported in the state since the Hemant Soren government came to power in 2019. “But the government is least bothered and happy appeasing a particular community for vote bank,” he said.
Reacting to the allegations brought by the BJP, state health minister and Congress MLA Banna Gupta said, “We are running a government which is sensitive towards people, their concerns and needs. If any crime happens, the police will take prompt action for logical disposal of the case. We don’t find religion in crimes unlike BJP, whose sole agenda is to play divisive politics.
He said the government won’t allow BJP’s motives to succeed in Jharkhand. “BJP is frustrated as it is jobless here since 2019 and has been constantly trying all tricks to either destabilise the government or play religion cards,” he added.