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IN PICS: BJP workers clash with police in Patna over teacher recruitment policy

Updated On: 13 July, 2023 03:39 PM IST | Anagha Sawant

Police burst tear gas shells and used water canons to disperse thousands of BJP workers, including senior leaders, who tried to march towards the Bihar Vidhan Sabha in protest against the Nitish Kumar government's teacher recruitment policy see pics (Photo/PTI)  

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Security personnel baton charge BJP supporters during their protest march towards Vidhan Sabha in support of demands of teachers' job aspirants, in Patna (Pic/PTI)

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Security personnel baton charge BJP supporters during their protest march towards Vidhan Sabha in support of demands of teachers' job aspirants, in Patna (Pic/PTI)
State BJP president Samrat Choudhary told reporters, before the march commenced at the historic Gandhi Maidan, that the opposition party was holding to account the government, especially Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav, who had promised "10 lakh jobs"  

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State BJP president Samrat Choudhary told reporters, before the march commenced at the historic Gandhi Maidan, that the opposition party was holding to account the government, especially Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav, who had promised "10 lakh jobs"

 

"Everybody knows who made that rhetorical promise. Only one individual had done so. It is, now, the time to deliver," said Choudhary, referring to the 2020 assembly poll campaign of the young RJD leader whose party came to power last year after BJP was stripped of the same with Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's exit from the NDA  

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"Everybody knows who made that rhetorical promise. Only one individual had done so. It is, now, the time to deliver," said Choudhary, referring to the 2020 assembly poll campaign of the young RJD leader whose party came to power last year after BJP was stripped of the same with Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's exit from the NDA

 

BJP workers, many of them wearing saffron kurtas, saris, salwar suits and bandanas, walked waving the party flag while some were perched atop a "prachar rath" (campaign vehicle)  

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BJP workers, many of them wearing saffron kurtas, saris, salwar suits and bandanas, walked waving the party flag while some were perched atop a "prachar rath" (campaign vehicle)

 

Slogans like "Nitish Tejashwi istifa do" (Nitish Kumar must resign) rent the air as the procession covered a distance of about a kilometre until it encountered barricades put up at the Dak Bungalow crossing  

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Slogans like "Nitish Tejashwi istifa do" (Nitish Kumar must resign) rent the air as the procession covered a distance of about a kilometre until it encountered barricades put up at the Dak Bungalow crossing

 

Notably, the Dak Bungalow crossing is situated around two kilometres from the Vidhan Sabha and, normally, processions are not allowed beyond the point  

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Notably, the Dak Bungalow crossing is situated around two kilometres from the Vidhan Sabha and, normally, processions are not allowed beyond the point

 

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