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By Press Trust of India: As the death toll in a suspected hooch tragedy in Bihar’s East Champaran district rose to 22 on Sunday, the opposition BJP alleged that the incident was a “mass murder by the Nitish Kumar government”.
Leader of Opposition in the Bihar assembly, Vijay Kumar Sinha, accused the state administration of “protecting liquor mafias who are associated with the ruling JD(U) and the RJD”.
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The party will approach the National Human Rights Commission and other such central bodies to conduct a “probe into the hooch tragedy”, former state BJP chief Sanjay Jaiswal said. Twenty-two people in Turkauliya, Harsiddhi, Sugauli and Paharpur villages of Motihari have so far died after allegedly consuming illicit liquor, the East Champaran district police said in a statement.
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At least twenty-nine others are battling for their lives at Sadar and different hospitals in the district. Condition of four patients is reported to be critical,” it said.
A team of BJP leaders visited some of the villages in the district where the suspected hooch tragedy was reported on Saturday.
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