His otherwise starched and spotless white kurta bore the mark of the slipper, in spite of efforts to rub it away. “I don’t need certificate of religion from anyone my government works for the people”, Nitish Kumar said.
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“National Council meeting recently I had said categorically there is no claim from my side for PM post”, he said.Asked that NCP president Sharad Pawar has described him as PM material from the grouping of anti-BJP parties, Mr Kumar said he was indebted to Mr Pawar who is among “the senior-most leaders of the country”. He suddenly took off his slipper and flung it at Kumar before the security personnel present could intervene. “I have asked the DGP not to file any case as I have forgiven him”. He was furious that the Government has banned lighting of burners for cooking and performance of havan and yagna between 9 in the morning and 4 in the evening. “I asked him to sit in order to save him from the police and also that I could talk to him later on”.
Earlier Jitan Ram Manjhi, when he was the CM, was hit by a slipper at the janata darbar at the same venue and the youth had been sent to jail. The Secretariat police, however, have registered a case against the youth, Nitish Kumar Sharma, under Sections 323 (punishment for voluntarily causing hurt), 353 (assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharging duty) and 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace) of the IPC. I told him that the advisory (of the disaster management department) was in the interest of the people and was meant to safeguard them from fires, which have been unusually high in number and devastating. I have got mandate to serve the people.
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Adding to this he said, “Running a government is like wearing crown of thorns”.
