Bihar opposition slams Minister’s call to ‘beat up’ unresponsive officials
The Hindu
A day after Union Minister and senior Bihar BJP leader Giriraj Singh advised people of his constituency in Begusarai to “beat up public representatives and officials if they don’t listen to you”, opposition leaders asked why the Centre had not taken any action against him.
“If they (MPs, MLAs, village heads, government officials) don’t listen to you, beat them up. Neither do we ask them to do anything wrong, nor will we tolerate their nanga naach (open wrong doing),” the Union Minister for Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairy Farming had said at an event organised by an agricultural science centre at Khodawanpur in Begusarai district on Saturday.
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