VIP rally disrupts traffic

PATNA: Traffic on the main roads of the state capital was thrown out of gear on Friday due to a motorcycle rally taken out by the

Vikassheel Insaan Party

(VIP) to commemorate the martyrdom of Jubba Sahni of Muzaffarpur, who was hanged to death by the British rulers during the freedom struggle.

Several rally participants were seen moving on motorbikes without helmet. The roadside vendors also had to face the wrath of the rallyists, who thrashed a few of them for their audacity not to remove their wooden carts from the roads to ensure smooth flow of the vehicles.

Ram Naresh Choudhary (48), a fruit seller at Kargil Chowk, said, “I was roughed up for not removing my ‘rickshaw thela’. It seems that a few of them were drunk. They were not ready to listen to my pleas.”

The rally, which began from the Millar School ground, crossed IT roundabout, Dak Bungalow, Kargil Chowk and then moved towards the Chiraiyatand flyover leading to traffic congestion at different points. The rally mostly comprising youths later culminated into a meeting near Moin-ul-Haq stadium at Rajendra Nagar.

VIP president Mukesh Sahni, former CM and HAM (S) president Jitan Ram Manjhi, former Union minister and RLSP chief Upendra Kushwaha and former minister and RJD leader Uday Narain Choudhary led the rally. They were seen moving in a pickup van. However, Congress leaders were conspicuous by their absence.

The VIP chief later told TOI that the purpose of the rally was to create awareness about the supreme sacrifice of Jubba Sahni.


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