PACS election in Bihar turned bloodier last week when an attempt to kill the Block Development Officer (BDO) Rajiv Ranjan of Kalar block in Arwal district was made.
The officer escaped but not without getting injured. His vehicle was destroyed. In what looked like a pre-meditated conspiracy the miscreants were waiting for the BDO hiding along the highway to Sahasa polling booth where the BDO was scheduled to go.
PACS elections at 63 booths were taking place on the day of the attack. It was villagers who saved my life, said the BDO while talking to media. When the miscreants saw a large number of villagers rushing towards them that they fled, Ranjan added.
It is being said that the BDO was on target as he got shifted a polling booth from disturbed area to comparatively safe zone thereby scorching chances of manipulations. The rampant corruption and the large-scale violence in Bihar’s PACS election underline the fact that levers of power in cooperatives rest in the hands of mafias in the state.
