Bihar legislators demand adoption of condemnation motion

Cutting across party lines, Bihar legislators today moved a resolution to adopt a unanimous motion to condemn the attacks on Bihari students in Chennai and other parts of the country.

Patna: Cutting across party lines, Bihar
legislators today moved a resolution to adopt a unanimous
motion to condemn the attacks on Bihari students in Chennai
and other parts of the country.

Intervening in the government`s reply to the killing of
two Bihari students in Chennai, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar
said he talked to his Tamil nadu counterpart M Karunanidhi and
Union Home Minister P Chidambram seeking security for students
from Bihar and told them that "anti-Bihari sentiments should
be nipped in the bud".

Kumar thanked Karunanihi and Chidambram for taking
immediate action after receiving his complaint and said that
Karaunanidhi had taken measures to provide secutirty to Bihari
students studying in that state.

Reading out certain portions of a letter Karunanidhi wrote
to him, he said two students from Bihar Ashish Ranjan and Md
Sarfaraj Rab and anoher from Jharkhand Sumit Kumar got drowned
after they jumped into a canal to avoid a police lathi charge
during a student unrest following death of one in accident.

He termed the the incident as `unfortunate`.

PTI

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