Patna

The deceased identified as Jesh Kumar Jha alias Raju Baba had gone for a morning walk when two unidentified men wearing face masks opened fire at him. He died on the spot.

Madhaw Anand, the party's principal national general secretary and chief spokesperson resigned from the posts as well as the primary membership stating that the party ran the risk of being "finished" on account of the "inconsequential" move.

At an interaction with farmers and representatives of panchayats of poll-bound Bihar, he said the Congress had promised in its election manifesto to do away with the APMC Act but it should now answer why it is spreading 'lies' over the issue.

The jailed former chief minister, serving sentences in Ranchi in fodder scam cases, came out with a couple of tweets in his native dialect Bhojpuri to take potshots at Kumar.

Lok Janshakti Party's Chirag Paswan had earlier expressed dissatisfaction over the Bihar government's handling of the migrant crisis that arose during the lockdown.

The CM said a "massive state expenditure" has been made towards establishment of thousands of block-level quarantine centres, where migrants returning from outside Bihar were lodged upon arrival for a mandatory 14-day period and given food, shelter and me...

According to the survey conducted by NGO ActionAid on 177 workers, who had returned from various parts of the country to 15 districts of Bihar amid the Covid-19 lockdown, none of them reported getting any cash assistance while stranded.

Manjhi however, made it clear that his stance must not be seen as his having a problem with Tejashwi Yadav, whom the RJD has declared its Chief Ministerial candidate.