Patna, Mar 8: A marshal, who has bodily lifted Karpoori Thakur and Lalu Prasad from the Bihar Assembly, intends to pen his experience of 27 years in the House.
Recounting his experience, 62-year-old Captain Bhanu Prakash Sinha told PTI that he had bodily lifted socialist leader Karpoori Thakur from the House when he was the Leader of Opposition in 1977.
“I saluted him and urged him to walk out of the House with me as per instruction of the Chair. I hesitated to use physical force on him, but he told me to do my duty. Later, I had to bodily lift him out of the House,” Sinha, who stands six feet tall, said.
On six occasions he had marshalled out RJD chief Lalu Prasad from the House when he was the Opposition leader.
“After offering some resistance he used to fall in line,” said Sinha who served in the defence forces from 1971 to 1983 and had a tough posting in militancy-hit Gurez and Kupwara in Jammu and Kashmir.
“After he became Chief Minister of Bihar, Prasad once told me jokingly, you threw me out of House six times and I became CM, if you do it 12 times I can become Prime Minister,” said Sinha, who joined as a marshal in 1987.
“I had to throw 72 MLAs out of the Bihar Assembly in 1987 on the instruction of then Speaker Shiv Chander Jha,” Sinha said.
Narrating tricky moments, he said that he had to apply all his skills once to protect Speaker Shiv Chander Jha from women legislators throwing bangles wrapped in paper at him.
“Once a legislator tweaked my ears and blood oozed out when I was lifting him out of the House,” he said.
About Nitish Kumar, he said the Chief Minister was always a disciplined legislator and never created a situation.
“Such is the charm of his oratory and personality that members in the House listened to him with rapt attention even when he was an opposition leader,” he said.
Sinha, who was trained as a marshal in Parliament, said he was never afraid of any legislator however powerful, but did his duty as instructed by the chair without harbouring any grievance.
About present Speaker Uday Narayan Chaudhary, Sinha said he was a strict disciplinarian and cared for the Assembly staff.
