Navyuvak Organisation of Jharkhand (NOJ), a Maoist outfit, which has sought an extortion of Rs 5 lakh from BJP’s Pipra MLA Shyam Babu Yadav in Motihari has also targeted Union Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Singh represents Motihari in Lok Sabha which has of late seen renewed activities by Maoists. MLA Yadav says “The group has threatened me with dire consequences if I fail to pay the amount,” reports Times of India.
The NOJ activists had pasted handwritten pamphlets on the boundary walls of four BJP workers’ houses at Kadama village under Rajepur police station in East Champaran district on Sunday night, asking Yadav, Krishna Deo Singh, a retired army jawan, Chulai Paswan and Sudip Kumar Singh to either pay the extortion money or face dire consequences.
Kadama is a Maoist-infested village where an assistant commandant and a CRPF jawan were killed in an encounter with the red rebels in 2011.