The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) on Thursday observed a statewide bandh in Bihar to protest against remarks targeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his late mother during the Mahagathbandhan’s ‘Voter Adhikar Yatra’ in Darbhanga.
Hundreds of RJD, Congress, and Communist Party of India (Marxist) workers joined their leaders as they marched towards the State Election Commission office in Patna.
Yadav has also called for a Bihar Bandh on Sunday (January 12). Earlier, he met Governor Arif Mohammad Khan to discuss the alleged irregularities and submitted a memorandum demanding a high-level inquiry into the matter.
Various parties, like the RJD, the HAM, and the VIP on Friday extended their support to the Bihar Bandh called by different youth organisations of the state on Saturday.
According to Patna Police, Tejashwi Yadav, the former deputy chief minister and current leader of the opposition in the state assembly, is among 27 people mentioned in addition to 'hundreds of unnamed ones' against whom an FIR was lodged late Saturday night at the Kotwali police station.
Protests against CAA that were earlier confined to the northeast, have swept the country over the past week after several protesters, including students, clashed with the police in Delhi’s Jamia Milia Islamia on December 15.
