New Delhi: Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM) has written to PM Narendra Modi demanding investigation into the death of LJP leader Ram Vilas Paswan.
“There are several doubts that bring his son Chirag Paswan in question,” reads the letter.
“The nation is in shock due to Ram Vilas Paswan’s death but LJP chief Chirag Paswan was seen smiling during shooting the next day after last rites. He was talking about the cut to cut shooting due to several questions are being raised by some section of Ram Vilas’s admirers and relatives,” read the letter. “On whose directions, the hospital where Ram Vilas Paswan was admitted did not release medical bulletins? On whose directions, only three people were allowed to meet Ram Vilas Paswan at the hospital?” it said.
Meanwhile, LJP President Chirag Paswan attacked Jiten Ram Manjhi saying that the way Manjhi Ji is talking about my father now, why didn’t he show so much concern about him when he was hospitalised? Everyone is playing politics over a dead person now, why no one bothered to visit him when he was alive?
The way Manjhi Ji is talking about my father now, why didn’t he show so much concern about him when he was hospitalised? Everyone is playing politics over a dead person now, why no one bothered to visit him when he was alive?: LJP President Chirag Paswan on Jiten Ram Manjhi https://t.co/2huWJ0HprN
— ANI (@ANI) November 2, 2020
Earlier, Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM) president demanded that Bharat Ratna be conferred posthumously on Dalit leader Ramvilas Paswan.
In a letter to President Ram Nath Kovind, Manjhi also made a plea to convert Paswan’s 12, Janpath bungalow in New Delhi, where the Lok Janshakti Party founder lived for the past 31 years since 1989, to a memorial.
The demand for according the country’s highest civilian award to the former union minister, who died on Thursday, has also been separately made by his younger brother and LJP Lok Sabha member Pashupati Kumar Paras and Bihar minister and senior BJP leader Prem Kumar.
Manjhi, himself a Dalit leader who suspended his all poll-related engagements in Gaya to pay tribute to Paswan in Patna, told reporters that he was demanding Bharat Ratna for Paswan so that future generations could be told about him and his services for the upliftment of the downtrodden.
Ram Vilas Paswan had passed away on October 8 this year after a long illness.
