Nitish Kumar offers to touch officer’s feet, asks him to speed up roadwork

Bihar, July 10 :  Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav on Wednesday took a jibe at Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar after a video of the latter went viral on social media which showed him approaching to touch the feet of a government official to get some work done.

While attending a public event in Patna, a livid Nitish Kumar told an IAS officer to expedite a road project in the city and even offered to touch his feet to speed it up.

“Kahiye to hum aapka pair chhu lete hain (I shall touch your feet if that is what you want),” the Chief Minister to the officer at a function where a stretch of “JP Ganga Path”, an expressway along the river that promises to ease traffic congestion in the city, was dedicated to the public.

The horrified official scurried back several steps, screaming “Sir, please don’t do this”, even as top government officials and political leaders also got on their feet to prevent the veteran leader from creating a scene.

This is not the first time that Nitish Kumar has offered to touch feet of government officials in Bihar. Last week, the Chief Minister had offered to touch the feet of a high ranking IAS officer, whom he urged to quickly settle land disputes by carrying out extensive surveys.

Reacting to the incident, Tejashwi Yadav shared a video of the incident on X and said that there was no Chief Minister in the world so helpless and powerless as Nitish Kumar.

“There is no other Chief Minister in the entire world as helpless, powerless, invalid, incapable, and forced as Nitish Kumar, who talks about folding hands and touching feet in front of BDOs, SDOs, police officers, senior officials, and even private employees of contractors,” Tejashwi Yadav said.

“Manu officials have taken it upon themselves to decide what will happen in Bihar because they know that he (Nitish Kumar) is the Chief Minister of a third-ranked party with only 43 seats,” the RJD leader added.

-PTI