Sunday, 27 March 2022

Bihar CM Nitish Kumar assaulted by deranged man on the outskirts of Patna

 Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar was on Sunday physically assaulted by a mentally unstable person who came within striking distance on the outskirts of the city, dodging the security cordon.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar was on Sunday physically assaulted by a mentally unstable person who came within striking distance on the outskirts of the city, dodging the security cordon. According to a statement issued by the district administration, the chief minister was attacked by 32-year- old Shankar Kumar Verma alias Chhotu, a resident of Abu Mohammadpur locality in Bakthiyarpur township of Patna district. Kumar was in Bakhtiyarpur as part of a public outreach programme which has led him to tour areas falling under the now abolished Lok Sabha constituency of Barh, which he had represented a number of times.

Incidentally, the chief minister, whose roots lay in adjoining Nalanda district, was born and brought up in Bakhtiyarpur where his father was a freedom fighter and a successful Ayurveda physician. At the time of the incident, the CCTV footage of which has gone viral on social media, Kumar was paying floral tributes to Pandit Sheelbhadra Yaji, a legendary freedom fighter and a former Rajya Sabha member who was known to be a close associate of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose….

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