Bihar Bandh call given by BJP led NDA from 7am to 12:00 hrs today to protest the incident in which Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s mother was abused from the dais of the Voter Adhikar Yatra in Darbhanga on August 27, evoked mixed response in the state.
As large number of workers of its constituent parties particularly women came on streets to paralyse the movement of vehicles on roads while most of shops, offices and other establishment opened at their usual schedule.
Women’s cell of parties concerned came on streets in large number in Patna and other parts of Bihar to enforce Bihar Bandh.
Women’s cell of BJP tried to restrict movement of vehicles near Income Tax round-about on Bailey road in Patna. They requested the people not to ply vehicles till 12:00 hrs, in protest against the insult meted out to mother of Prime Minister. Insulting mother of PM Modi was insult to entire women of the country, they stressed.
All essential services including ambulance, supply of medicines and milk have been exempted from Bandh call.
National Highways in seven districts of Bihar including Jehanabad, Bhagalpur, Darbhanga, Begusarai, Munger and Muzaffarpur remained blocked for several KMs and long queues of
vehicles were seen on roads. Normal life was also affected in other parts of Bihar but most of business establishments, offices and educational institutions remained open as usual.
Meanwhile, former union Minister and BJP MP Ravi Shankar Prasad said ” RJD leader Tejashwi Prasad Yadav will not understand the difference between the targeting his mother and abusing mother of PM Modi “.
“Mother of Tejashwi is a political personality while mother of PM had nothing to do with politics. She had brought up PM Modi in extremely poor condition,” Ravi Shankar remarked.
As it is, a person from dais of Voter Adhikar Yatra had abused mother of PM in Darbhanga on August 27. Congress leaders, had however, dissociated themselves from the incident, saying no leader was present on the dais when the incident took place. Neither Rahul Gandhi nor RJD leader Tejashwi Prasad Yadav was present and they had left for Muzaffarpur when the incident took place, they maintained.
