Video: “My Brother…” – Minister cries remembering his party colleague

The Union minister said, “There have been two attempts to attack me in Buxar in the last 24 hours.”

Patna:

Union Minister of State (MoS) Ashwini Choubey broke down remembering Bharatiya Janata Party Kisan Morcha National Working Committee member Parshuram Chaturvedi, who passed away in Buxar on Monday.

The Union Minister said, “I have just received the news that my younger brother Parshuram Chaturvedi, who was with me on hunger strike in support of farmers’ issues in the bitter cold for the last three days, has passed away due to a heart attack.” ” Press conference.

Earlier, during the press conference, the Buxar MP alleged that there was an attempt to attack him twice in the last 24 hours in Buxar.

During my program in Buxar against the atrocities on farmers, just five-six feet away from me, some goons came waving sticks in the air and tried to attack me, but my bodyguards and police personnel caught three people. Took and saved me. If they had not caught him, I do not know what would have happened then.

“What’s more, while passing through the police personnel on duty, a man fled with a country-made pistol. The police remained mute spectators,” he said.

He said that he informed about the incident by writing a letter to the Deputy Inspector General of Police, Deputy Superintendent of Police and all the officials.

“More importantly, when the policemen and activists present there took those goons to the police station to provide security, the police DSP there told our workers and PAs that no problem, the minister is doing his work and the goons are doing their job. Working. Doing his work. It is unfortunate to hear something like this from Bihar DSP.

He said the three men who were held for assaulting him were later released under pressure from some influential persons.

“I want to ask Nitish Kumar why the criminals who were brought to the police station have not been arrested yet,” he said, adding that he wanted to ask under whose pressure they were released.

The Union minister said, “There have been two attempts to attack me in Buxar in the last 24 hours.”

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