Patna, May 01: Accusing the RJD government of trying to cover up the involvement of its leaders and workers in yesterday's killing of senior BJP leader Satyanarayan Sinha, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) today demanded a CBI probe into the incident to unravel the truth.
''We have no faith in Bihar Police who we feel will be manipulated by the ruling RJD.....So we demand a CBI probe into the killing of Sinha,'' members of a high-level central team sent by Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee to make an on the spot assessment of the circumstances leading to the killing of Sinha, told a press conference.
The team, including Central ministers Nitish Kumar, C P Thakur, Ravishanker Prasad, Hukumdeo Narain Yadav and BJP general secretary Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, said the NDA would hold a day-long dharna here tomorrow to protest the killing.
A BJP delegation would call on Governor V C Pande the next day to submit a memorandum seeking his intervention to bring those responsible for the killing to book, Naqvi said adding that the team would submit its report to the Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani on its return to Delhi.
Replying to a question on whether the NDA government would make another effort for imposition of president's rule in Bihar, Naqvi said, ''Our efforts in this regard in the past failed because of the negative role played by the Congress...The Congress should grasp the situation and take initiative to pull down the Rabri regime and we will extend full support.”
Sinha was killed in a gunbattle with RJD activists at Jamaluddin Chak of Patna district.
Bureau Report
