"JHARKHAND MUKTI MORCHA HAS BECOME JHARKHAND MUSLIM MORCHA"

Jharkhand has been in news for all wrong reasons. The Islamists mercilessly killed two Hindu girls within a span of few days, and Chief Minister Hemant Soren said there was nothing unusual about it as such crimes keep happening. In an exclusive interview with Organiser National News Coordinator Nishant Kumar Azad, BJP Jharkhand leader and three-time MP Nishikant Dubey spoke on a range of issues, from CBI-ED raid on Opposition leaders to demographic change in the State to conversion of tribals. Excerpts:

- Nishant Kumar Azad

On the day when you visited Dumka to meet Ankita’s family, demanding justice as well as giving financial assistance, the same day an FIR was registered against you and Manoj Tiwari for entering the Air Traffic Control tower at Deoghar airport to forcibly obtain take-off clearance for a chartered plane. What exactly happened?

In 2009, when I contested the election for the first time, there was not even a single case pending against me except one related to the election code of conduct, but after March 2020, there are 37 cases against me. The authority has not only filed a case against me but also against my wife and my 18 and 19-year-old children who study abroad. But I do not care about it; even 3037 cases will not stop me from doing my work.

Mohammad Shahrukh Hussain had torched Ankita alive by pouring petrol on her. A few days later, a tribal girl was hanged from a tree after being raped. Although Dumka has been the family turf of the Soren family, no one cared to take note of the repeated crimes or visit the aggrieved families.

All limits were crossed when the Chief Minister himself debunked all these incidents of heinous crimes as usual stuff that keeps happening everywhere. When other BJP leaders and I visited Dumka in heavy rain, 15,000 people gathered to support us. They were seeking justice for Ankita. We provided assistance of Rs 28 lakh. This has rattled Hemant Soren, hence the FIR against us.