Acquitted
formally by the Patna High Court last week and forthwith released from Beur
Jail, ex-parliamentarian Pappu Yadav seems rather expedient in the breeze of free
air, what he was missing desperately for twelve long years. The Unparallel
leader of the downtrodden Seemanchal belt of Bihar was in Patna on Tuesday.
Asked
about his future course of action, the ex-MP democratically replies that he is
now going to people’s court and it’s upto them what they want me to do. It is
for the first time he interacted the media after the Patna high court verdict
helped him finally released from jail.
Yadav
was convicted for life imprisonment by the lower court, in the high profile murder
case of 1998, in which Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI-M) legislator
Ajit Sarkar was killed in broad daylight at Subhash Nagar in Purnia. The assasination
of this firebrand CPI-M leader rocked the political arena of Bihar at the time
when the state used to be known for Jungle raj and Bahubalis.
The
fiefdom of this dabaang and bahubali leader would rocks in Bihar
and he is the only legislature who settled the
electricity problem in his constituency after winning his very first
assembly election in a electricity mongering state of Bihar.
As
Pappu Yadav has strong support base in Seemanchal area comprising Madhepura,
Araria, Khagaria and Sitamarhi, he indicated that these people will decide his
future. "If people love me I will contest the 2014 general election from
any of these area".
“As
my wife Ranjita Ranjan represents the Congress he has to think wisely so that
people of his area will get benefited”, he said.
Keep
the suspense running Mr Yadav said that he has not yet decided whom to support.
Denying the bipolar nature of political space in Bihar as of Nitish and Laloo
he named Ram Vilas Paswan and Sharad Yadav too.
It
is well known that, RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav expelled him from the party in
April 2009, accusing him for anti-party activities. The 2009 loksabha ticket
brawl brought the relationship between Lalu and Pappu to a flash point then.
Pappu
yadav accuses tha Susasan is working on paper and the ground reality is in
bad taste. He words that corruption became ubiquitous during last couple of
years and throes of poor are beyond tolerance. To understand the people's
apathy and to win their support he is going to people court from July 6, as he
launches "Ashirwad yatra" from Purnia.
A
somewhat emotive recall of his days in jail, he said that a book will be
released in July that depicts his days of oppression in Tihar and Beur. Making
sly innuendoes for both the bureaucrats and politicians for
mazing him in conspiracy, though denies to name those.
"Any
possibility of joining hands either with Lalu Prasad or Nitish Kumar can not be
ruled out as he does not have enmity with anybody", he said in a special interaction after the press
conference. "Whatever will be in the best interest of my supporters I will
do," a melancholic yadav said.
Amit Sinha
is a Research Journalist. He is available at facebook.
