This story is from November 4, 2020

‘Angry’ at price rise, onions thrown at Nitish Kumar in Madhubani

Bihar polls 2020: Onions hurled at CM Nitish Kumar during rally in Madhubani
Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar
PATNA: In a first-of-its-kind incident in the election campaigning so far, onions were hurled at Bihar CM Nitish Kumar on Tuesday at a rally in Madhubani district’s Harlakhi constituency. The projectiles, which JD(U) later claimed were stones, did not hit the CM as the security personnel were alert and foiled the attempt.
According to those attending the CM’s rally at the high school ground in Gangaur, some young boys in the crowd hurled onions at the CM to draw his attention towards skyrocketing onion and potato prices.

A visibly upset CM told the offenders “Khoob Phenko, Khoob Phenko” and asked the policemen, who had nabbed the boys, to let them throw whatever objects they wanted towards the dais. He said let the young boys go, don’t take notice of such elements. The incident took place around 1.30 pm.
Contacted over the phone soon after the incident, Harlakhi’s sitting MLA Sudhanshu Shekhar, who was on the dais when the objects were hurled targeting the CM, said, “They were some young boys who hurled some onions towards the dais. As the boys were very young, the CM asked the policemen to let them go.”
Later in the evening, the JD(U) national general secretary and state’s water resources minister Sanjay Kumar Jha, who was accompanying the CM during the election tour, posted a tweet on his official Twitter handle in which he said, “The opposition showed its disappointment by throwing stones at Bihar’s popular CM Nitish Kumar at his election rally at Harlakhi.”
“I was watching from the dais that people of Harlakhi were ready to give a reply of stones through votes,” Jha further said in his tweet.

Taking a cue from Jha’s tweet, the JD(U) state president Bashishtha Narain Singh, in a statement, condemned the incident of “stone-throwing” on the CM at Harlakhi and demanded a high-level probe into the incident, saying, “It could have led to a big incident.”
Singh also said people who are disappointed because of likely defeat in the assembly polls committed such acts of “cowardice” of throwing stones at the CM.
A local who attended the rally said, “Some young boys were enraged over the sharp rise in the prices of vegetables in the recent days and they threw onions towards the CM just to draw his attention towards unprecedented rise on the process of potato and onions in the markets across Bihar,”
Onions are being sold at the rate of Rs 65 to 70 per kilogram in different places in Bihar while potatoes at the rate of Rs 50 to 55 per kilogram.
Nitish on Tuesday addressed a series of seven election rallies in different assembly constituencies of Muzaffarpur, Darbhanga, Madhubani and Madhepura district. He took a night halt in Madhepura.
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