Bihar polls: Jan Suraaj demands removal of Dy CM Samrat Choudhary after Prashant Kishor’s allegations, says will move court if…

Bihar Assembly Election: The Jan Suraaj Party has sought the removal of Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary following serious allegations levelled against him by party founder Prashant Kishor. On Tuesday evening, a Jan Suraaj Party delegation led by its national president Uday Singh and state unit chief Manoj Bharti submitted a memorandum to Bihar governor seeking Choudhary removal.

Jan Suraaj demands Dy CM’s removal

“We had properly sought an appointment before coming. Sadly, it was not Governor Arif Mohammad Khan who met us, but his principal secretary, who received the memorandum on his behalf,” Uday Singh told reporters.

The Jan Suraaj Party leader warned the party would seek legal recourse and move the courts if no action was taken against Choudhary. We are pressing the demand for the removal of Choudhary as his continuance on the post is a mockery of the Constitution. We have also written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who claims to be a firm believer in probity in public life,” said Singh.

What are Prashant Kishor’s allegations against Samrat Choudhary?

Earlier, addressing a presser last week, Prashant Kishor had claimed that Samrat Choudhary, a senior BJP leader and current Bihar deputy chief minister, had escaped trial in a 1995 murder case by submitting a document before the court to show that he was a minor at the time of the incident.

Kishor had further said that Choudhary’s claim before the trial court has been falsified by his own affidavit, filed in 2020, while getting elected to the state legislative council, which stated his age at the time as 51 years.

“Thus, Choudhary was in his 20s at the time of the murder. He should be arrested and put on fresh trial and kept in jail until acquitted by the court”, Kishor had said.

(With PTI inputs)