DNA comment: Rabri Devi demands apology from Modi

The incident triggered protests by party workers. They open fire and he falls to the ground. As Das fell down, another assailant shot him in his head. With the Bihar assembly polls round the corner, Bharatiya Janata Party leaders have linked the incident to the deteriorating state of law and order in Patna and across the state.

Police have got CCTV footage from a temple which showed the attackers chasing and shooting Kumar. “All the attackers escaped after committing the crime”.

Lashing out at the Nitish Kumar government for failing to control law and order situation in the state, Sushil said, “We have always been saying that the jungle raj has returned”.

Three unknown miscreants pumped bullets into the chest and forehead of BJP leader Avinash Kumar when he was returning home after dropping his daughter at her school.

The incident caused a stir in the area where hundreds of residents and shop-owners, with the body of the victim, blocked the road by burning tires and other objects and demanded immediate arrest of the shooters.

The killing of the BJP leader took place only three days before Prime minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to address a rally at Gaya on August 9.

If Nitish was so offended about PM Modi’s “DNA” remark that he called it a matter of Bihar Asmita, where was he when Lalu Yadav had used several derogatory terms on him, asks Giriraj Singh in his open letter.

Talking to reporters at Patna, Mr. Rathore said, Bihar chief minister is in a fix as he is losing peoples faith so he is trying his best to gain sympathy. The state leaders have alleged the ruling Janata Dal (United) government of turning Bihar into safe haven for notorious criminals.

Addressing a public meeting in Muzaffarpur, Modi had said: “There seems to be some problem in his (Nitish Kumar’s) DNA because the DNA of democracy is not like that. In a democracy, you give respect even to your political rivals”, Modi had said.