‘Sharabi ho tum’: Nitish screams at BJP MLAs over hooch tragedy

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday lost his cool in the state assembly when leaders of the opposition BJP attacked his government over several deaths due to spurious liquor in Saran district’s Chhapra area. 

The Janata Dal-United chief Nitish slammed the BJP for protesting the deaths as Leader of Opposition Vijay Kumar Sinha questioned the state’s liquor ban policy since 2016. Nitish Kumar lost his temper in the House and screamed at the BJP MLAs ‘’Sharabi ho gaye ho tum…(you are drunk)” 

Protesting the incident, Bihar opposition lawmakers also staged a demonstration outside the state assembly later. 

BJP MP and former Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi reacted strongly at Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s ‘sharabi’ statement made in the Bihar Assembly today. 

“The tenure of Nitish Kumar is over. He has lost his memory. He calls Prashant Kishor and BJP MLAs as ‘tu’, ‘tum’. It happened earlier as well. He loses his temper very often now. But his disposition was not like this before,” said Sushil Modi. 

At least five people in Chhapra died after allegedly consuming spurious liquor, said police and warned the toll could rise. The police in Ishauvpur area have called the deaths “suspicious” as they continue with probe and post-mortems.

“Three died, bodies sent for postmortem, these look like suspicious deaths. I have also received information that some more are receiving treatment at different places,” said the SP.