Liquor seized in dry Bihar from ambulance funded by BJP leader’s MPLADS
The Hindu
FIR lodged; BJP’s Rajiv Pratap Rudy calls for stern action; jailed former MP Pappu Yadav mocks seizure
In dry Bihar, country-made liquor bottles packed in six sacks were seized on September 15 from an ambulance bought with Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Rajiv Pratap Rudy’s Members of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme (MPLADS) fund in Saran district. Mr. Rudy had donated several ambulances with his MPLADS fund in 2019 to mukhias (village head) of his constituency for serving people under the ‘Sansad Panchayat Ambulance Service’ initiative. The ambulance from which the liquor was seized had been given to the mukhia of Kotwapatti-Rampur, Jai Prakash Singh. An FIR as been lodged against Mr. Singh and two others, police said.
Bihar was declared a .