Overview

• At a Patna press conference, the RJD leader presented a purported video and alleged Urban Development Minister Jibesh Kumar shouted at and assaulted a journalist in Jale after a question on road conditions.
• Yadav said the reporter belongs to a backward community and alleged the minister used abusive language, including insults directed at the journalist’s family.
• He called for registration of an FIR and for Kumar to be sacked or resign from the Nitish Kumar cabinet.
• Yadav linked the demand to a Rajsamand court finding that involved Kumar, as a company director, in spurious-drug manufacture and placed him on probation rather than issuing a jail term.
• He questioned whether Prime Minister Narendra Modi and state leaders would act during the PM’s Bihar visit, while reports noted no FIR or official response from Kumar or the government at the time of publication.