Bihar Govt diktat: No more offensive tweets, but Tejaswi is not listening

The latest diktat from a top Bihar official is that all offensive social media posts against the government, ministers, MPs, legislators and state officials will be treated as cybercrime and invite penal action.

The first person to violate the diktat was none other than former deputy chief minister and leader of opposition, Tejaswi Prasad Yadav, who dubbed Chief Minister Nitish Kumar as ‘Hitler’

Family is at Lalu bedside

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test reports of RJD President Lalu Prasad, who was admitted at Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences following complaints of uneasiness in breathing, are normal, barring a hint of pneumonia. Former Bihar chief minister Rabri Devi met her husband on Friday evening. Accompanied by her sons, she reached Ranchi in a special plane from Patna; Misa Bharti, her eldest daughter and Rajya Sabha membe;r had reached from New Delhi. The Jail superintendent relaxed the rules and arranged their meeting. for trying to regulate the content on social media and challenged the police to arrest him for his online transgression.

Tejaswi’s tweet also said that Nitish was ‘‘Bhisma of corruption, a protector of dreaded criminals and a weak chief minister of an immoral and illegal government.’’ In the state, innocents were being punished and culprits were allowed to go scot-free; he further alleged that the Bihar police is engaged in illicit liquor trade.