PATNA

The state government undertook a massive midnight transfer in the police administration involving 52 IPS officers and 14 SP-rank Bihar police officers. DG (Civil Defence) Manoje Nath has been made DG (Training). ADG Abhyanand has been made ADG (Wireless and Training). A K Ambedkar has been made the new IG of Bhagalpur while Vinay Kumar that of Darbhanga. B Sriniwasan was made IG (Intelligence). The commandant of BMP 12 Amitabh Kumar Das has been transferred to BMP 9 in the same capacity. Siwan SP Amit Kumar Jain has been made senior SP of Patna. Sudhanshu Kumar, currently Bhojpur SP, has been made SP of Khagaria. Kamal Kishore Singh, Saran SP, has been made commandant BMP 7, Katihar. The commandant of BMP 5 Patna Paras Nath has been made SP Motihari. Nawada SP Anil Kishore Yadav has been made SP of Bhojpur. The commandant of BMP 16 Ashok Kumar Singh has been appointed SP Lakhisarai. Katihar SP G P Sinha will be the new SP of Nawada. The commandant of BMP 13 Vinod Kumar will be the new SP of Sheohar. The SP of Madhepura Sanjay Singh has been sent to Aurangabad in the same capacity. Vinod Kumar, the commandant of BMP 2, Dehri, has been posted as the new SP of Jamui. The additional director of Bihar Police Academy Shyam Kumar has been made Banka SP. The SP of railways, Muzaffarpur, has been posted as the new SP of Gaya. The SP of Bettiah Amrit Raj has been posted in Siwan in the same capacity. The commmandant of BMP 7, Katihar, Awadhesh Sharma, has been transferred to Muzaffarpur as the new rail SP. The assistant director (training) Bihar Police Academy Ram Narayan Singh will be principal of CTS. SP (Vigilance) G P Bhadoria has been made commandant of BMP-2, Dehri. The SP (Rail) Jamalpur Vimal Kumar has been made SP (Vigilance).

Patna

Patna:

Hundreds of thousands of Communist sympathizers in Bihar on Thursday courted arrest during the day-long 'fill the jail' campaign sponsored by more than half a dozen left parties including the Communist Party of India (M), Forward Bloc, and Communist Party of India to protest against the rising prices of essential items in the nation.
The rally was led by the CPI-M politburo member Vrinda Karat, CPI leader Atul Kumar Anjan, and Forward Bloc leader Narhari Mahto.
"If the Center does not change its economic policies soon, we will broaden our stir in other parts of the country," Karat, a devout Communist who believes it was the government's job to support an individual from cradle to grave with no personal responsibility of the individual, said before being arrested by the Patna police.
As all other rallies in Patna, the 'Lal Salam' activists waving red flags and chanting anti-government slogans began their march from the Gandhi Maidan and after disrupting traffic on Frazer Road arrived at the ever-popular Dak Bungalow Crossing where they willingly offered their arrest as long as cameramen from various news outlets were at an arm's distance.
Anjan took the Central government to task saying the dramatic rise in the petroleum products were the result of the government being in the pocket of the private petroleum companies.
"The Central government is only concerned with the welfare of the large private companies that fill the coffer of the politicians. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asks others to suggest ways to check prices of food and other essential items but it is clear he has no intention to follow up on these suggestions," Anjan said.
Karat, who was in no mood to exonerate the NDA government in Bihar on the price issue, accused the Nitish administration of encouraging black-marketers and hoarders by creating an artificial shortage of food-grains so they could jack up the prices manifold.