MP Pappu Yadav announces reward of Rs 10 lakh for killing 'corrupt' officials in public

New Delhi, Mar 6: Lok Sabha member Rajesh Ranjan alias Pappu Yadav has raked up a fresh controversy after he appealed Dalit and backwards communities to shoot corrupt officials.

The Bihar MP brazenly said that he would give a cash reward of Rs 10 lakh to those who beat up corrupt officials to death in public.

"If the government is not taking action against bureaucrats and ministers who are looting the poor then the Dalits should shoot the politicians responsible for deaths like that of Dalit scholar Rohith Vemula. The Dalits should fight against all those who are responsible for Vemula's death," Yadav was quoted by a TOI report.

"Those who bring the tapes of corrupt officials would be rewarded Rs 25,000 and those who beat them to death in public would be awarded Rs 10 lakh from my side," he added.

Earlier, the Jan Kranti Adhikar Party chief during a debate over corruption in Parliament had demanded that corrupt politicians and bureaucrats must be hanged.

Pappu Yadav, the Lok Sabha MP from Madhepura, is known for making contoversial statements.

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