Nitish Kumar loses cool once more, this time over mobile phones | India News

NEW DELHI: Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on Thursday misplaced his cool once more within the state meeting after he noticed an opposition legislator utilizing mobile phones whereas the House was in session.
Nitish rose as much as register his objection and requested the speaker, Nand Kishore Yadav, to ban mobile phones within the meeting.
“These people are talking on mobile now. Earlier, it was banned. Now, everyone is talking with a mobile. Is this any good? You should say that no one should come with a mobile, impose a ban,” Nitish mentioned.
“That has already been done earlier. Why is this happening? It started 5-6 years ago, and the use of mobile phones will end the Earth within 10 years,” he added.
The chief minister, amid uproar over his remarks from the opposition, additional proclaimed that whoever brings a telephone within the meeting can be thrown out.
“Aside from that, you say separately. It is restricted. Whoever brings a mobile will be removed from here.”
An engineering graduate, Nitish confessed to having been an avid smartphone person himself, however mentioned, “I have given it up. You too should do the same.”
Nitish’s feedback got here throughout the query hour when RJD‘s Suday Yadav took out his telephone to search for info and figures in help of his submission.
Chief minister’s former deputy Tejashwi Yadav shot again at Nitish and termed him anti-technology in addition to anti-youth.

“From an environmental point of view, arrangements have been made to answer questions online in order to make the House paperless. If an honourable member has to ask a supplementary question, he will have to ask it by looking at his mobile or tab, but the computer-illiterate Chief Minister of Bihar has a problem with that too,” Tejashwi mentioned in a publish on X.
“It is unfortunate that Bihar has got such a conservative and outdated Chief Minister who is anti-technology as well as anti-youth, students and women. Condemnable!” he added.
Earlier within the day, Nitish had lashed out at former chief minister Rabri Devi within the legislative council and accused her authorities of inciting violence between completely different communities.
“Has her government or her husband’s government ever done anything till today? Have they ever done any work till today? There was so much constant fighting,” Nitish mentioned.
This is just not the primary time JD(U) supremo misplaced his cool within the meeting. Recently, Bihar meeting witnessed a fiery showdown between the CM and Tejashwi Yadav after JD(U) Nitish claimed that he “made RJD supremo Lalu Yadav what he became” and invoked the previous information of the Rashtriya Janata Dal tenure from 1994 to 2005.