Kumar Rajiv Nayan
Ara : RJD MLA from Barhara Saroj Yadav in Bhojpur district on June 26, 2017, evening, lodged a named FIR with Barhara police station against Munnu Singh, Group Admin of a WhatsApp group and son of Deputy Mayor, Ara Municipal Corporation (AMC), Malati Singh, for maligning his image under a political conspiracy by posting false and misleading information in the social media against him. Munnu Singh is a resident of Rampur under Barhara police station but lives at Ara, headquarters of Bhojpur district.
A news was posted in the WhatsApp group ‘India News’ on June 23, 2017, that Bihar Health Minister and son of RJD supremo Lalu Prasad, Tej Pratap Yadav, abused and pushed Saroj Yadav, RJD MLA from Barhara, out of an Iftar party at Patna.
Saroj Yadav said that he had gone to the Iftar party but no such incident had taken place there. The news was made viral merely to malign his image, the RJD MLA laimed. On the other hand, Munnu Singh said that the FIR had been lodged because he had posted earlier that his mother will contest next assembly election from Barhara.