Bihar: Youth attacks Nitish Kumar, CM asks officers not to take action against him | Patna News

PATNA: In a serious breach in his multi-layer safety, Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar was on Sunday attacked by a youth in his hometown Bakhtiyarpur.
The incident occurred within the premises of the first well being centre (PHC), Bakhtiyarpur, the place Nitish had gone to pay floral tributes on the statue of well-known freedom fighter Shilbhadra Yaji, who was additionally a local of Bakhtiyarpur.
Positioned round 50km east from the state capital Patna, Bakhtiyarpur is the birthplace of CM Nitish Kumar. Nitish additionally did his education and spent his childhood in the identical city.
All the incident was caught on a close-by CCTV digital camera. It was additionally captured within the cell phones of all these individuals who have been capturing the CM’s programme by way of their smartphones.
As per the video footage that has going viral on social media platforms, a youth was seen strolling in direction of the dais in fast steps crossing the safety personnel. As quickly as he reached close to the CM, he slapped Nitish from behind. Nonetheless, the youth was instantly caught and cornered by safety personnel.
Because the safety personnel gave him a couple of thrashing, the CM requested the safety males, “Don’t beat him. First, attempt to discover out what he’s saying.”
“As per the preliminary investigation, the youth (aged about 32 years) has been recognized as Shankar Kumar Verma alias Chhotu. He’s a resident of the Abu Mohammadpur space below Bakhtiyarpur Nagar Parishad. Throughout interrogation, it got here to mild that he’s mentally challenged. Just a few years again, he had jumped down from a two-story home. As soon as he had additionally tried to commit suicide by hanging himself. The investigation was being performed whereas maintaining in thoughts all these features. Tasks for negligence are being fastened,” Patna district public relation officer (DPRO) stated in a written assertion.
The youth is at the moment below police custody and he’s being interrogated by senior officers at an undisclosed place within the state capital.

For the final two weeks, Nitish had been visiting totally different elements of the erstwhile Barh parliamentary constituency which he represented 5 instances in between 1989 to 2004, to satisfy his previous political colleagues. Bakhtiyarpur is likely one of the meeting segments of the erstwhile Barh Lok Sabha seat, and Nitish had gone there as a part of his programme to satisfy previous political associates.
After returning to the state capital, Nitish issued a clear-cut instruction to not take any motion towards the youth who attacked him.
“CM Nitish Kumar has requested that no motion ought to be taken towards the youth as a result of he’s mentally challenged. The CM has additionally requested the official to attempt to discover out the issues of the youth,” a senior official from the chief minister’s workplace (CMO) instructed TOI over the cellphone on Sunday late night.
Reacting to the incident, state’s constructing building minister Ashok Kumar Choudhary stated, “It’s a critical lapse in safety association of the CM. The incident ought to be probed and motion should be taken towards these individuals who can be discovered negligent.”
Earlier, in January 2016, a person had tried to hurl a shoe at CM Nitish Kumar throughout a operate at Bakhtiyarpur.