Bihar politician drives garbage-laden tractor trolley sans
Maverick politician Rajesh Ranjan alias Pappu Yadav was fined on Thursday for driving without a valid license a tractor trolley full of garbage that he threatened to dump in front of a state minister's residence in Patna, police said.
Yadav, a controversial former MP who has floated the Jan Adhikar Party (JAP), said he did this in protest against the state government's "failure" to check the outbreak of dengue, which has afflicted more than 200 people in the city since the beginning of this month when heavy rain had left many pockets water-logged for several days.
The police said he was stopped and fined Rs 5000 as he was carrying a license to drive light motor vehicles, which was expired in 2017, and not one to drive heavy vehicles.
"I have been deprived me of my fundamental right to register a protest. I have a license but they have come up with the challan on a flimsy ground that the one I possess did not qualify me for driving a heavy vehicle," Yadav said.
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