Demand mounts to free 2 jailed upper-caste politicians after ex-Bihar MP Anand Mohan's release

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After former Bihar MP Anand Mohan was released from jail last month, there are growing demands to set free two more upper-caste politicians -- former MP Prabhunath Singh and former MLA Anant Singh...

Prabhunath Singh, who is a four-time MP from Maharajganj, is presently serving a life sentence in Hazaribagh jail in Jharkhand in connection with the murder of then Janata Dal MLA Ashok Singh in Patna on July 3, 1995...

A Hazaribagh court awarded the life sentence to Prabhunath Singh in the case in May 2017...

Leading the campaign for the release of the two jailed politicians, Krishna Kumar Kallu, who heads the Swarna Kranti Dal, said that he will go to any extent to ensure that both politicians are released from jail like Anand Mohan...

Reacting to the development, BJP leader Arvind Kumar Singh alleged that Nitish Kumar released Anand Mohan due to pressure from the RJD...

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