Patna, July 24: Sushil Kumar Modi today said the Opposition BJP would bring an adjournment motion on the first day of the state legislature to discuss the Saran midday meal tragedy.

“The party has decided to go the whole hog against the government on the issue. We will bring adjournment motion in both the Houses to discuss it,” Modi said.

He was talking to reporters here after visiting Dharmasati Gandaman village yesterday. At least 23 children died after having midday meal served at the local school last week. The team, including Janardan Singh Sigriwal, Vinay Singh and Janak Singh, met the victims’ family members to take a first-hand account of the tragedy.

The common complaint of family members was that the primary health centre at Masarakh lacked basic facilities, due to which several children could not be saved, he added. Modi said the team had to return to Patna after it made an abortive bid to visit the site the next day of the incident because of people’s protests in Saran district.

The party’s decision to raise the midday meal tragedy may not sound well for the Nitish government as the BJP has already announced that it would fight for doubling the salary of 2.5 lakh teachers appointed on fixed pay in government primary schools across the state.

Modi had said the party would fight for the cause of teachers both inside and outside the Assembly.

An inquiry team constituted by the JD(U) has already talked about the theory of “political conspiracy” in its report, the former deputy chief minister said and questioned the relevance of the special investigation team (SIT) when Nitish have already talked about the conspiracy theory. Stating that the joint report of Saran deputy inspector-general and commissioner be made public, he said if the report did not talk of any political conspiracy, on what basis the chief minister and his partymen are talking of it.

Upping its ante against the Nitish government for its failure to check the increasing crime graph in the state and police’s “high-handedness”, Modi and party leader Sukhada Pandey raised the issues of kidnapping and murders of girls in the state.

Modi demanded an inquiry into the killing of one Sneha Kumari, an MBA employed with Jeevika for past one year, whose body was found from a hotel room in Munger yesterday.

Modi said the deceased’s father claimed that the postmortem report also talked about “unnatural death”.