Gangster-turned-politician Anant Kumar Singh, whose MLA spouse lately crossed over from the opposition RJD to CM Nitish Kumar’s JD(U), on Sunday walked out of jail on parole.
Singh, who was sentenced to 10 years in jail by a Patna courtroom a few years in the past in a case beneath the stringent UAPA, has been launched for 15 days, officers stated.
He got here out of the Beur jail, on the outskirts of Patna, within the early hours and reached his ancestral dwelling in Mokama, a few 100 km away, in an ambulance.
A swarm of supporters greeted Singh, who had been disqualified in his fourth consecutive time period because the MLA from Mokama following conviction, just for the seat to be retained by his spouse Neelam Devi.
Slogans in reward of “Chhote Sarkar”, the epithet he enjoys on his dwelling turf, lease the air whilst Singh declared “a victory by greater than 4 lakh votes” for JD(U)’s former president Rajiv Ranjan Singh “Lalan”.
A key aide of the CM, Lalan seeks to retain the Munger Lok Sabha seat, beneath which Mokama falls. Voting will happen within the constituency on Could 13.
Curiously, in 2019, Neelam Devi had contested towards Lalan on a ticket of Congress, the RJD’s junior ally in Bihar.
Singh, as soon as recognized to be near the CM, had by then burnt his bridges and in 2020 he contested the meeting ballot on an RJD ticket.
Singh and his supporters had squarely blamed a “conspiracy” by Lalan when grenades and rocket launchers had been seized from his Mokama residence, resulting in the UAPA case.
A few months in the past, when Nitish Kumar pulled the plug on a short-lived alliance with RJD and returned to the BJP-led NDA, Neelam Devi switched sides.
RJD spokesperson Mrityunjay Tiwari focused the Nitish Kumar authorities over Singh’s launch from jail.
“Here’s a authorities that itself appears to be on parole, what to talk of the discharge of 1 particular person. All understand how this authorities in Bihar was shaped. Some favours should be returned,” remarked Tiwari.
The discharge of Singh, whose affect spreads past Mokama, is being seen as an try and galvanise higher caste Bhumihars in favour of the NDA in Munger.
The RJD has fielded Kumari Anita, spouse of dreaded gangster Ashok Mahto who is thought to be a staunch critic of higher caste dominance in society and politics.