Patna,(BiharTimes): Even before the full facts could come as to who is responsi-ble for the thrashing, which led to the death of Shyam Narayan Bhardwaj alias Siku Raj––BSF, Kishanganj Police or both––opposition parties have started mak-ing political capital out of the situation.

If BSF is to blame––as Siku fainted while appearing in the fitness test––then none else but the Union home ministry should be asked to explain the matter as this para-military comes under its control. If the Kishanganj police have indulged in barbarity then the state government’s role should be questioned.

But the video footage released by the BSF shows that something went wrong within its camp. As to what prompted Siku to get involved with the BSF personnel needs to be probed?

But in this election year nobody was going to wait. Pappu Yadav took to streets and gave a bandh call on July 11. He squarely blamed the Nitish Kumar govern-ment for the incident.

Former chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi, however, blamed both the state and the central governments, but he did not cited the reason for saying so. He ac-cused the Centre for not imposing the President’s rule in the state where, ac-cording to him, the law and order situation has collapsed.

Even the contry’s former home secretary and BJP MP from Ara, R K Singh, did not remain silent. He too criticized the state government for the death of Siku.

In this cacophony a layman gets confused as to what are the central subjects, what are the state subjects and what are the subjects in the concurrent list.

What is lost in scoring this political point is the larger charge of the police bar-barity on a youth, who had to pay for his life.

Incidentally, the main opposition, the BJP, is yet to speak much on the issue as it knows that it is in power in the Centre.