Shoe thrown at Bihar CM Nitish Kumar at function to promote liquor ban

Patna: A man hurled a shoe at Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Thursday, but it missed the intended target. The incident took place during a function at which Nitish Kumar reiterated the ban on sale of liquor in Bihar from 1 April, police said. The shoe landed away from Nitish Kumar and the man was detained by police. [caption id=“attachment_2602260” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] Nitish Kumar. File photo. PTI[/caption] “A man attempted to throw a shoe at the chief minister at a function in Bakhtiyarpur in Patna,” a district police official said. The shoe landed a few metres away from Nitish Kumar. “This incident took place when Nitish Kumar reiterated that he was committed to implementing a total ban on liquor in the state from 1 April. A man protested against it by throwing a shoe at him,” the police official said. Earlier, Nitish Kumar had made it clear that a total ban on liquor would be imposed in the state in phases. Bihar would first ban country-made liquor and then Indian-made foreign liquor (IMFL), he said. Ban on sale and consumption of alcohol was one of the promises Nitish Kumar made during campaigning for the 2015 Bihar assembly elections. IANS