Administration Ignores City Chaos
Patna: April 1, 2008
 Tuesday was yet another day when the entire city was taken hostage by protestors and rallyists representing various special interest groups, a scene that is becoming more and more common under the Nitish-led NDA administration.
Protestors carrying party flags and banners displaying their own demands brought the entire city to a screeching halt as there was hardly any major street that was not packed with rallyists who were so engrossed in their own agendas that they could not care less for their fellow citizens' convenience – a trait sorely lacking in these paid protestors and their sponsors.
 Lawyers on strike, people on Boring Road fed up with the lack of drinking water, Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) women's cell protesting against rising prices of vegetables, teachers demanding more money, government employees unhappy with the 6th pay review, hawkers demanding permanent place on sidewalks – protests is all what could be seen from one end of the city to another.
Gandhi Maidan, Ashok Rajpath, Kadam Kuan, Bakerganj, Nala Road, Pirmuhani, Bhattacharya Road, Exhibition Road, Frazer Road, Dak Bungalow Crossing, Station Road,  Buddha Marg, GPO roundabout, Income Tax roundabout, Kargil Chowk, Hartali Mor, Boring Road, Bailey Road, Birchand Patel Marg, Kankarbagh, Rajendra Nagar – there was not one major road that was not affected by protestors in Patna on Tuesday.
School buses carrying children and ambulances transporting patients in dire need of medical assistance remained stranded in traffic for hours thanks to the protestors who on places, fell flat on the roads making it impossible for the traffic to move without first crushing them under the wheels.
All this time, the district administration remained a moot spectator allowing anarchy to unfold in the name of democracy.
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