Team News Riveting
Chennai, March 5
Two days after an editor of a Hindi daily and a spokesperson of Bhartiya Janata Party posted an alleged “fake” video about the killings of Bihar migrants in Tamil Nadu, the state police registered an offence against the duo on Saturday.
According to the reports, Tamil Nadu Police registered FIR against journalist Mohammed Tanvir and Uttar Pradesh BJP spokesperson Prashant Patel Umrao. The police said both had tweeted false information about migrant Bihari labourers in Tamil Nadu, triggering major chaos in the political arena.
Earlier on Friday, the opposition BJP created a ruckus in the Bihar assembly before staging a walkout on the issue. The party demanded that a team of members of the House be sent to Tamil Nadu to verify reports of attacks on Bihari migrant workers in Tamil Nadu. Speaker Awadh Bihari Chaudhary took a grim note of the unruly behaviour of some of the BJP MLAs who had entered the well and placed chairs on the table of the reporting staff.
The Tamil Nadu DGP, C Sylendra Babu denied the reports of violence and slammed the BJP for raising a stink over unverified claims.
Later today, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin clarified that the videos circulated on social media platforms were not authentic and said that migrants in the state should report to the police if they go through any such incident.
Stalin said he spoke to Nitish Kumar over phone and assured him that the state government would protect the interest of the Bihari labourers and they were safe in Tamil Nadu. Stalin said nobody could create differences among parties opposed to the BJP.
Meanwhile, a four-member team of officials from Bihar arrived in Chennai and held discussions with authorities including Labour department officials. They are expected to meet senior State officials and Bihari workers as well in places like the textile hubs of Coimbatore and Tirupur.
