‘If Pappu Yadav is not released from jail within two days, I will go on fast,’ says his wife

‘My husband’s fight for common people and to help COVID-19 patients in all possible manner will continue,’ says the former MP.

Ranjit Ranjan, wife of imprisoned former MP from Madhepura and president of the Jan Adhikar Party (Loktantrik) , has said that her husband’s fight for common people and to help patients in all possible manner would continue and if he is not released from jail within two days she “would sit on a fast-unto-death”. Mr. Pappu Yadav’s arrest, first for violation of lockdown norms and then under a 32-year-old kidnapping case from Madhepura on May 11, has also created fissures among the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) allies and opposition Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD). “Pappu Yadav’s fight for exposing lack of medical facilities in hospitals for COVID-19 patients, drug mafias selling oxygen cylinders and life-saving drugs like Remdesivir at exorbitant prices will continue in the State. If he [Pappu Yadav] is not released from jail within two days, I’ll sit on fast-unto-death”, Ms. Ranjan told The Hindu.