Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai on Wednesday launched an attack on Bihar Chief Minister after police opened fire and baton-charged the protesters in Katihar, in which one protester was killed, adding that CM Nitish Kumar should resign.
In the Barsoi subdivision, on Wednesday afternoon, a large number of people had come to lay siege to the electricity office against the electricity department.
It all started after reports suggested Nitish Kumar had raised "objections" over the name of the National Developmental Inclusive Alliance or I.N.D.I.A.
A BJP worker from Jehanabad died allegedly during a police lathi charge, while participating in a protest march by his party against the Bihar government’s teacher recruitment policy doing away with the domicile requirement for the recruitment of teachers earlier in the month.
Reacting to this, Sushil Modi said, "Rajgir is just an excuse...We know him for a long time. He was angry and this is why he did not attend the press conference."
Nitish Kumar said, "I am not angry about anything. I was not present in yesterday's press conference of the opposition meeting in Bengaluru because I wanted to return to Rajgir."
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President JP Nadda said that the detailed report concerning the death of the party leader in Bihar during a protest march exposes the brutality and insensitivity of the Nitish government towards jungle raj prevailing in Bihar.
Janata Dal-United President Rajiv Ranjan Singh 'Lalan' has said that Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is an anchor of opposition unity and that the name ‘INDIA’ was decided for the alliance through consensus at the meeting of 26 opposition parties in Bengaluru on Tuesday
"The country belongs to 140 crores people. 26-party people call themselves INDIA, what can be a bigger joke than this? It is difficult for them to stay together as there are contradictions," RCP Singh said.
Sources said that the name INDIA was proposed to everyone in an informal meeting on Monday. Suggestions were sought on the name from all opposition leaders and later on Tuesday everyone agreed to it.
The second and concluding day of the opposition unity meeting in Bengaluru is set to begin here on Tuesday, with 26 like-minded parties closing ranks with a common aim of taking on the Bharatiya Janata Party in the next year's Lok Sabha polls.