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RJD workers vandalise buses and cars ahead of visit by Nitish

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Press Trust of India Supaul (Bihar)
Last Updated : Nov 21 2018 | 10:20 PM IST

Opposition RJD workers here on Wednesday went on a rampage, vandalising buses and cars and tearing down posters of the ruling JD(U) ahead of Chief Minister Nitish Kumars scheduled visit, police said.

The RJD workers were staging a demonstration in Lohianagar locality of the town in protest against alleged reneging by the chief minister on his promise of setting up an AIIMS-like hospital.

They also exchanged blows with workers of the JD(U) who protested when the opposition party workers damaged their posters and banners, police said.

Police made lathi charge to disperse the mob and clear the way for the cavalcade of the chief minister, who reached the venue for addressing a meeting of party workers belonging to the Extremely Backward Classes (EBCs).

At the conference, Kumar expressed satisfaction over the "awareness" that he saw among the newly-empowered EBCs and underscored the measures taken by his government to bring about womens emancipation, which included ban on alcohol, campaigns against dowry and child marriage and also schemes aimed at promoting girls education.

Meanwhile, in Patna JD(U) state president Vashishth Narayan Singh deplored the behaviour of RJD workers saying "it did not send a good message for democracy" and accused leader of the opposition Tejashwi Yadav of having made a fuss over "a non-issue like installation of CCTV camera."

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First Published: Nov 21 2018 | 10:20 PM IST

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