New Diktat: Bihar Police will tarnish your character certificates should you protest towards the Nitish Government

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, in what might be his last time period because the Bihar CM, has been making some draconian strikes which undermine India’s democratic construction. In a controversial transfer, the Bihar Police has issued a brand new round the place it has acknowledged that no authorities jobs shall be obtainable for these discovered staging protests and blocking roads.Nitish Kumar, who off-late has come to be often known as the ’40 seat Chief Minister’ is trying more and more insecure as his destiny lies with the BJP and the newest Bihar Police round factors to his rising unpopularity and insecurity.“If a person is involved in any criminal act by engaging in a law and order situation, protests, road jams and is charged by the police for thus, then specific mention of this will be made in the character verification report by the police,” mentioned DGP SK Singhal mentioned within the directive.The official letter added, “Such people have to be prepared for serious consequences because they will not be able to get a government job or apply for government tenders.”The proper to protest have to be safeguarded in each democracy and Nitish Kumar has no standing to grab away this proper from the folks of Bihar. Yes, he can act towards violent protesters or individuals who block nationwide highways like Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath, nonetheless, not at all ought to Kumar try to stifle peaceable protests. The broad nature of the wordings used within the round can result in the stifling of peaceable protests.Such a diktat drew sharp reactions from the opposition events. RJD chief Tejaswi Yadav tweeted, “Nitish Kumar, who is challenging Mussolini and Hitler, says that if someone used his democratic right to protest against the power system, then you will not get a job. Means they will not even give jobs and will not let someone protest.”मुसोलिनी और हिटलर को चुनौती दे रहे नीतीश कुमार कहते है अगर किसी ने सत्ता व्यवस्था के विरुद्ध धरना-प्रदर्शन कर अपने लोकतांत्रिक अधिकार का प्रयोग किया तो आपको नौकरी नहीं मिलेगी। मतलब नौकरी भी नहीं देंगे और विरोध भी प्रकट नहीं करने देंगेबेचारे 40सीट के मुख्यमंत्री कितने डर रहे है? pic.twitter.com/h0TDkuR5vP— Tejashwi Yadav (@yadavtejashwi) February 2, 2021Earlier in January, Nitish made ‘offensive’ criticism of the state authorities on social media websites an act amounting to cybercrime. The broad nature of the notification is especially regarding as a result of in response to the legislation, any individual can find yourself in jail for ‘offensive’ criticism of the present Bihar authorities.The phrase ‘offensive’ in itself is broad and topic to notion, and there’s each likelihood that it may be misused by the Nitish-led Bihar authorities. The legislation states that any ‘offensive/indecent’ submit towards the federal government, state ministers, Members of Parliament, Members of Legislative Assembly and the state authorities officers will now quantity to cybercrime.Read More: Any anti-government social media submit can land you in jail as per Nitish Kumar’s new diktatIn truth, the Bihar authorities went a step additional and urged the folks to report ‘offensive’ posts and can subsequently take strict motion after duly verifying these posts.Nitish Kumar is more and more behaving like a extremely insecure Chief Minister who doesn’t bode properly for Bihar. And the current diktat issued by the state authorities proves the identical.