Furious Nitish Kumar Defends Decision To Call Cops Inside Bihar Assembly

Unprecedented scenes were witnessed in the Bihar assembly on Tuesday when Opposition MLAs were dragged, manhandled by policemen and carried out on stretchers.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar lost his cool yet again on Wednesday when faced with protests by the Opposition MLAs in the legislative council over the manhandling of several legislators by security personnel in the state assembly the previous day. Blaming the MLAs of the opposition camp for the chaos, the Chief Minister defended the decision to call police personnel inside the Bihar assembly and said there was no other option left. बिहार विधान परिषद में आज⁦@NitishKumar⁩ कुछ इस मुद्रा में विपक्ष को जवाब देते दिखे ।⁦@ndtvindia⁩ ⁦@Suparna_Singh⁩ ⁦@Anurag_Dwary⁩ pic.twitter.com/JSXPHCcHcI "Aren't you aware of your actions. It's you who always attack. Do these people (the MLAs of the ruling NDA) ever attack you? They quietly listen," Nitish Kumar was seen snapping at the Opposition MLAs in a footage from the legislative council. Unprecedented scenes were witnessed in the Bihar assembly on Tuesday when Opposition MLAs were dragged, manhandled by policemen and carried out on stretchers after the Speaker was virtually held hostage inside his chambers, following chaos over a legislation that gives more power to the state's police force to search people and make arrests. The Special Armed Police Bill, 2021 was passed by voice vote late Tuesday night