RJD on Warpath over Bhagalpur Incident
 Patna: Aug. 31, 2007
Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leaders in Patna on Thursday burnt the effigy of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar to protest against the police brutality case in Bhagalpur and arrests of RJD operatives who were 'simply outraged by the autocratic way of functioning under the NDA rule' in Bihar.
"This government has killed democracy in Bihar. Innocent people are being tortured, protestors are being fired at and arrested at the drop of a hat," party leader Khurshid Alam Siddiqui said.
 Equating the Nitish government with the Hitler regime in Germany, Siddiqui said the NDA government, in its nearly two years since coming into power in Bihar, had 'butchered the Indian Constitution' and had shown utter disrespect for basic human rights.
The RJD leader appealed to the Central government to scrap the NDA government in Bihar and impose President's Rule to 'save Bihar from the clutches of dictators and a bureaucracy gone out of control'.
Later, the same mob, 'gave death penalties' to the effigies of Nitish Kumar, Bihar Director General of Police (DGP) Ashish Ranjan Sinha, and Chief Secretary A. K. Secretary by 'performing public hangings' of their likeness at Dak Bungalow crossing.
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