Manjhi orders probe into purification of temple after visit

The Bihar CM warns strict action will be taken if anybody is found guilty

A day after his claims that a temple in Bihar's Madhubani district was washed and purified soon after his visit there for obeisance, Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi today ordered a probe.

Strict action will be taken if anybody is found guilty, the CM warned even as the temple priest stoutly denied allegation in this regard.

Majhi told reporters after presiding over 'Udyami Panchayat', that the Darbhanga Divisional Commissioner and Inspector General of Police (IG), Darbhanga zone, will jointly probe whether idols and premises of Parmeshwari Devi temple located in Anradhari village were washed and purified soon after his visit there for obeisance a few month ago.

On reminded that the Mines and Geology Minister Ramlashan Ram Raman and JD(U) MLC Vinod Kumar Singh have denied that the temple was cleaned after the chief minister's visit, Manjhi said he was not in the habit of speaking lies in public. Raman had narrated the incident to him not once, but twice after which he chose to go public to highlight bias against dalits in civil society, the chief minister said.