Summary:
Patna, Dec 2 (PTI) The Bihar assembly was on Thursday shocked to hear that a minister in the Nitish Kumar government had to suffer “humiliation” on account of high-handedness by police personnel managing the movement of vehicles inside the premises.
Labour resources minister Jibesh Kumar Mishra said on the floor of the House that he got late because “the traffic policeman on duty made me halt till the cavalcade of Patna DM and SP passed through”.
Addressing Speaker Vijay Kumar Sinha, the minister exclaimed “I could have understood were it your cavalcade or that of the Chief Minister.
But this was appalling.
Are DMs and SSPs above a minister?” This led to strong reactions from MLAs in the opposition, prominent among them being RJD"s Alok Mehta, Lalit Yadav and Prahlad Yadav, Congress" Ajeet Sharma, and Mehboob Alam of the CPI(ML).
Mehta made a pointed remark “any punitive action must not be limited to lower rank officials who live in terror of their higher-ups and, therefore, end up behaving inappropriately”.