ADD ANI AS A TRUSTED SOURCE
googleads
Menu
General News

"Amit Shah's visited Bihar for his own benefit, not to give special status": Tejashwi Yadav

Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav on Thursday criticised Union Home Minister Amit Shah's visit to Bihar, saying that he came for his own benefit rather than to give special status to the state.

ANI Sep 18, 2025 22:35 IST googleads

RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav (Photo/ANI)

Patna (Bihar) [India], September 18 (ANI): Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav on Thursday criticised Union Home Minister Amit Shah's visit to Bihar, saying that he came for his own benefit rather than to give special status to the state.
Speaking to the reporters, the RJD leader said, "He is not coming to end unemployment. He is coming for his own benefit. He is not coming to give special status for Bihar."
Yadav also asked about Minister Jibesh Kumar's assaulting and verbally abusing a journalist. "Will any action be taken against the minister who beat up the journalist?" he asked.
Earlier on Monday, Leader of Opposition in the Bihar Assembly Tejashwi Yadav accused the state's minister of Urban Development and Housing Department, Jibesh Kumar, of assaulting and verbally abusing a journalist, and demanded that an FIR be registered against him.
While addressing a press conference in Patna, Yadav showed a purported video of the minister shouting at a journalist, who belongs to a backward community. Yadav alleged that the minister was on a visit to his Jale constituency, and beat up the journalist after he asked a question about the condition of the roads.
"He (Jibesh Kumar Mishra) has also been found guilty in a fake drug case. He has committed a serious crime while being a Minister, and I present the video before you. When the Minister was visiting his constituency, a journalist hailing from a backward community asked him a question about roads. The Minister beat him up and abused him," the RJD leader said.
As Yadav trained his guns at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, questioning whether the actions of the state minister are known to him ahead of his visit to Purnea, or even known to Chief Minister Nitish Kumar or the deputy CMs, too.
"Before 2005, such questions used to be asked. The question was just about roads, not a lowly question. Does the Chief Minister, or the Prime Minister, who is coming here today, know? Does the journalist not have a mother and sister?" he said.
Further calling for an FIR to be registered against the minister, he added, "Journalists should ask, will the minister have an FIR registered against him? Will he get punished? This is all evidence."
Accusing the administration of suppressing any action against ministers, Yadav questioned why an FIR has not been registered over the alleged incident.
"This is the BJP's culture, I have never seen a minister giving such bad abuses to a journalist, beating up the journalist. What kind of administration is this? Is the law different for those? I would like to know from both the deputy CMs and even the PM, whether the law is the same or different? If it is the same, why is there no FIR?"
He also accused the police of colluding with the ministers to allow them to take bribes. (ANI)

Get the App

What to Read Next

Politics

YSRCP files PIL challenging Andhra Pradesh govt’s land policy

YSRCP files PIL challenging Andhra Pradesh govt’s land policy

Former Andhra Pradesh Minister Gudivada Amarnath on Thursday said that the YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) has filed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) challenging the land policy of the state government, alleging that large extents of valuable public land are being allotted to a few real estate companies at very low prices.

Read More
Politics

"No shortage of petrol, diesel or LPG": Hardeep Singh Puri

In his statement in the Lok Sabha, Puri said the government has taken multiple measures to safeguard the country's energy security and ensure the uninterrupted availability of petroleum products, cooking gas, and natural gas.

Read More
General News

FCI workers' demands raised before Labour Authority

FCI workers' demands raised before Labour Authority

The ongoing dispute between the management of the Food Corporation of India (FCI) and its sole recognised union, Bhartiya Khadya Nigam Karamchari Sangh (BKNKS), was taken up for conciliation on Thursday before the Deputy Chief Labour Commissioner (Central) in New Delhi.

Read More
General News

ED attaches 31 immovable properties worth Rs 581.65 crore in...

ED attaches 31 immovable properties worth Rs 581.65 crore in...

The attached properties are in the form of land parcels situated in Goa, Kerala, Karnataka, Punjab, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Delhi, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, and Rajasthan.

Read More
General News

SC grants bail to separatist Shabir Shah in terror funding case

SC grants bail to separatist Shabir Shah in terror funding case

In 2019, Shah was arrested in a case registered by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) against him and other separatist leaders in 2017. The separatist leader has not been released from judicial custody ever since.

Read More
Home About Us Our Products Advertise Contact Us Terms & Condition Privacy Policy

Copyright © aninews.in | All Rights Reserved.