PATNA: A day after Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar asserted that law and order was his government’s top priority, leaders of the opposition INDIA bloc on Saturday staged a protest march at district headquarters across the state to vent their ire against the ‘rising’ crime graph in the state.Senior leaders from the state’s opposition alliance comprising the RJD, Congress, CPI (ML), CPI, CPI (M) and former minister Mukesh Sahani’s Vikassheel Insaan Party (VIP) participated in the protest march.In the state capital, the protest march started from the Income Tax roundabout and culminated at the Collectorate where opposition leaders submitted a memorandum to the district magistrate Chandrashekhar Singh. The INDIA bloc leaders threatened to intensify the agitation against the state government if the law and order situation did not improve.Bihar Congress president Akhilesh Prasad Singh accused the state government of stopping the opposition’s protest march as police put barricades at various places. He said that the situation had become so alarming that relatives of senior leaders were being killed inside their homes, obliquely referring to the murder of VIP chief and former minister Mukesh Sahani’s father Jitan Manjhi in Darbhanga recently.
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