Patna: In the backdrop of UP and Uttarakhand governments’ orders to display names of fruit sellers and eateries along the Kanwar Path, Congress Legislature Party (CLP) leader Shakeel Ahmad Khan and its two other MLAs, Izharul Hussain and Rajesh Kumar, resorted to novel ways to protest on Monday.
While Khan reached the assembly campus with fruits and vegetables—capsicum, bananas, lady fingers, brinjal and pumpkin—hanging by threads on a sling, Rajesh carried the Constitution.
“What else they (saffron parivar) will divide? Do they want to say that a particular colour of a natural thing is not permissible for everyone? Will they divide water, air, earth and every organic material, depriving others of them?” Khan questioned.
“Their design is sinister, and it will not stop just at minority sections during the Sharwani Mela. Soon, other weaker sections will also face the same insult and discrimination,” Khan warned while talking to mediapersons.
On the other hand, Rajesh displayed the Preamble of the Constitution, and told mediapersons that the orders of the UP and Uttarakhand governments have denied the rights given by it. “Their order denies the concept ‘we the people of India…’ that is mentioned in the Preamble of the Constitution,” Rajesh said.
Meanwhile, the CPI(ML) MLAs said that the “good governance, inclusive development and improved law and order”, promised by CM Nitish Kumar, appear to have become a sham.

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