CM Nitish Kumar unhurt after slippers hurled at dais

Patna | Thursday | 11th October, 2018

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Later, he was arrested.The meeting continued and ended peacefully. Patna SSP Manu Maharaaj avoided media persons seeking his comment on the incident and quickly left the venue in his SUV.However, former minister Ashok Kumar Choudhary, who recently deserted the Congress to join JD(U), said nothing big happened. “You should not attach any significance to one crazy youth from a big crowd showing such ‘vikrit mansikta’ (perverted mentality),” he said and added it was not the right way to protest against any issue — be it job quota or anything else. PATNA: CM Nitish Kumar and his party leaders at a Chhatra JD (U) meet were visibly stunned as one Chandan Tiwari from Aurangabad threw his two chappals towards them in quick succession and shouted ‘Nitish Kumar murdabad’, in Patna on Thursday.One chappal flew past the heads of those sitting on the stage and the second one fell in front of the dais before the CM.Within seconds, Chandan was overpowered and slapped, kicked and thrashed by policemen and JD (U) workers on way to being whisked out of the auditorium..