Congress expresses serious concern over blowing up police picket

Ranchi, May 1 (UNI) The Jharkhand Pradesh Congress Committee(JPCC) has expressed serious concern over blowing up of a police picket by naxalite at Pirthand in Giridih district yesterday and alleged that proscribed Maoists were running a parallel administration in the state.

JPCC president Pradeep Kumar Balmuchu in a statement criticised the state government for failing to control the Maoists and demanded to provide security to the affected people in the state.

The extremists blew up the building, which was used by the security personnel, the day police picket was withdrawn, he said.

As long as the NDA government was in power, the law and order situation could not improve in the state, he alleged.

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