Patna : Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar sparked a row after he pulled down a woman’s hijab while handing over appointment letters to AYUSH doctors at an event. The video shows Nitish Kumar gesturing towards the woman’s headscarf after handing her appointment letter. He asked her about it, and instructed her to remove it before proceeding to pull it down himself.
The incident took place at ‘Samvad’, the CM’s secretariat, where appointment letters were given away to more than 1,000 AYUSH doctors. When it was the turn of Nusrat Parveen, who had turned up wearing a hijab across her face, the 75-year-old CM frowned and exclaimed “what is this?”. The appointee was hastily pulled aside by an official, while Deputy Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary, who stood beside Kumar, was seen tugging at the latter’s sleeve, in an apparent bid to restrain him.
The Opposition trained guns on Kumar with both the RJD and Congress sharing the video on their X handles. What has happened to Nitish ji? Has his mental condition now reached a completely pathetic state or has Nitish Babu now become 100% Sanghi?,” RJD wrote on X. Lashing out at Kumar for “despicable act”, Congress also shared the video on X and demanded his resignation.
Imagine how safe women will be in the state? Nitish Kumar should resign immediately for this despicable act. This vulgarity is unforgivable. Priyanka Chaturvedi, Shiv Sena UBT leader, termed the act a “public harassment”. This is absolutely condemnable and force pulling a woman’s veil down is nothing but public harassment of a woman by the elected CM,” she wrote on X. The video is from Patna where Nitish Kumar presented appointment letters to 1,283 AYUSH doctors.
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