A day after a local leader of his party was gunned down in Bihar's Vaishali district, Union Minister Upendra Kushwaha today slammed the Nitish Kumar government asking how many murders would it take to wake the state administration out of its slumber.

Kushwaha, chief of the BJP's ally Rashtriya Lok Samata Party (RLSP), visited the deceased leader Manish Sahni's home at Belari village today and consoled the bereaved family. Sahni, Vaishali district president of RLSP's extremely backward castes cell and head of Jandahan block panchayat samiti, was gunned down by unidentified assailants yesterday when he was coming out of his chamber at Jandaha block office, according to officials.