Jamshedpur: A day after JMM called off its proposed east Singhbhum disrict bandh scheduled today, in protest against the arrest of party MP Suman Mahto, the BJP has given a call for a dawn-to-dusk bandh tomorrow to lodge their protest against the alleged misbehaviour of the JMM MP.

The bandh has also been called to protest the transfer of the East Singhbhum deputy commissioner Nitin Madan Kulkarni, Dalbhum sub-divisional officer Ranjan Choudhury and suspension of Kadma police saton officer-in-charge Amarjeet Prasad, BJP district president Vinod Kumar Singh said today.

The BJP, he said, would send a video footage of the MP's alleged misbehaviour with government officials to the President, Lok Sabha speaker and Jharkhand governor for suitable action. Earlier, JMM had called for a bandh today demanding transfer of Kulkarni, Choudhury and Prasad for misbehaving with the party MP.

The bandh was withdrawn late last night following the transfer of the two officers, JMM sources said today. The district administration had rounded up the Mahto and her supporters on Friday last after they installed a bust of her husband, slain JMM MP Sunil Mahto, on a controversial site on Kadma Ganesh Puja maidan in violation of prohibitory order under section 144 CrPC.

Meanwhile, the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM), the BJP's youth wing, today burnt the effigy of Jharkhand chief minister Madhu Koda here in protest against the transfers, which they termed as "illegal".

Addressing the gathering, BJYM district president Satish Kumar Singh said "it is really shameful that a MP has threatened to implicate the SDO in a rape case, if he made any attempt to remove the bust from the site".

Source : PTI