Attack on Bihar migrants: Nitish to send team to TN

March 03, 2023 22:25

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Friday decided to send a team of senior state government officials to Tamil Nadu for looking into allegations of attacks on migrants, which snowballed into a major issue notwithstanding vehement denials by the southern state.

Leader of the Opposition in Bihar assembly, Vijay Kumar Sinha, after a meeting with the CM, claimed that the state government has agreed to a proposal to also send an all-party delegation to the southern state on Friday.

According to a statement issued by the chief minister's office, it was decided that the team will include officials from the police department while the chief secretary and the DGP here have been directed "to keep a constant watch" on the situation in Tamil Nadu.

"The government is fully sensitive towards the matter," asserted the statement. According to highly placed sources, the team is scheduled to leave on Saturday and likely to comprise four officials, two of them with roots in Tamil Nadu which will enable them to get "internal feedback", cutting through the barriers posed by language.

The move came even as deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav, while speaking in the state assembly earlier in the day, sought to go by the version of the Tamil Nadu DGP who has rubbished reports of attacks on Hindi-speaking people in that state.

Yadav, incidentally, has also faced flak from the opposition BJP in Bihar for having visited Tamil Nadu amid the crisis to attend a function organised on the occasion of the birthday of M K Stalin, the Chief Minister of the southern state. -- PTI

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