Bihar
ex-DGP D.P. Ojha is contesting as an Independent from Begusarai in Bihar
after the NDA denied him a ticket for the coming Lok Sabha polls. Ojha
was the toast of the public as recently as four months ago because of
his attempts to break the criminal-politician nexus in Bihar. It was on
July 30 that Ojha first told the media that the police were going to
pursue criminal cases pending against the notorious RJD MP Mohammed
Shahabuddin . Laloo was then on a pilgrimage to Amarnath. Shahabuddin
was left with no option but to surrender a week later. The all too
familiar happened. Ojha was removed from his post. "Contesting the
election is a part of my larger battle against the prevailing
politician-criminal-bureaucrat nexus," he says. The sacked DGP came
into limelight after submitting a 100-page report on RJD strongman from
Siwan Mohammad Shahabuddin revealing his links with Pakistan's ISI and
other international criminal gangs. He says his campaign against
criminal-politicians nexus would continue even if the lost the election.
