Overview

• The shutdown runs from 7 a.m. to noon and is led by women’s wings of NDA parties, with essential services and trains operating while shops and road traffic face disruptions.
• Darbhanga police identified the man in the viral clip as Mohammad Rizvi and have arrested him in connection with the remarks made from a local event stage.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi condemned the slur, calling it an insult to all mothers, as NDA leaders demanded an apology from the RJD–Congress bloc.
• RJD’s Tejashwi Yadav said no one’s mother should be abused but called the Prime Minister’s reaction performative and cited past derogatory remarks by BJP leaders.
• BJP leadership, including Amit Shah and JP Nadda, met core Bihar leaders to fold the incident and a counter to the anti-SIR campaign into their poll strategy, with constituency-level meetings planned this month.