Verbal spats, protests mark final Bihar Assembly session before polls

The five-day monsoon session of Bihar Assembly--the last before the state goes to polls -ended on Friday on a bitter note.

Chief minister Nitish Kumar criticised the opposition members for dressing in black to protest the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) carried out by the Election Commission in Bihar.

"You (opposition members) have been coming here dressed in black. What does this mean? You have never done anything sensible. It is the last day of the session, and you are wasting time," Kumar said in the Legislative Council.


In the same vein, he alleged that RJD leader Rabri Devi may have instructed her party members as well as allies to wear black.

On Wednesday, the House saw a verbal spat between Kumar and opposition leader Tejashwi Yadav when the latter was speaking on SIR. Kumar called Tejashwi a "child" and reminded him of his parent's tenure in the state.

A day later, harsh words were exchanged between deputy chief minister Samrat Choudhary and RJD legislators, when Choudhary labelled serious allegations against Yadav by naming his father, Lalu Prasad Yadav.

A verbal spat also took place between Speaker Nand Kishor Yadav and deputy CM Vijay Kumar Sinha, which forced Yadav to adjourn the Assembly.