Bihar: Video of crowd looting biryani at AIMIM candidate’s nomination event goes viral
Kishanganj: As Bihar gears up for the upcoming Assembly elections, a viral video from Bahadurganj in Kishanganj district has sparked widespread discussion on social media. The footage reportedly shows a chaotic scene in which a crowd looted packets of biryani during the nomination event of AIMIM candidate Tausif Alam.
According to reports, the incident occurred as hundreds gathered to witness Alam’s nomination filing. What began as a campaign gathering soon descended into disorder when people rushed to grab biryani packets distributed at the venue. The video, which has since spread rapidly online, has drawn mixed reactions from netizens.
Some social media users criticised the incident as symbolic of Bihar’s persistent poverty and underdevelopment. One user commented, “It’s the leaders who must develop Bihar for this very naked and starving populace. In a nation dreaming of becoming developed by 2047, what’s the difference between this and a starving state in Africa?”
Others pointed to unemployment and social distress as underlying causes. “Poor souls are unemployed, what else can they do? Wherever they find something, they’ll just rush there like that,” another user wrote.
While some dismissed it as a routine occurrence, comparing it to similar frenzies over mangoes or freebies, others expressed concern that such scenes reflect the deeper socio-economic inequalities shaping voter behaviour ahead of the Bihar Assembly Elections 2025.
The AIMIM has not issued an official statement on the incident.
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Women's quota bill would have ensured defeat of democracy, Constitution: Aaditya Thackeray
Mumbai (PTI): Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Aaditya Thackeray on Saturday said that the passage of the women's quota bill would have ensured a "total defeat of democracy", alleging that the legislation, linked with a delimitation exercise, was a political tool designed to reduce the voice of states.
Thackeray, in a post on X, claimed that the Bill would have amended the Constitution for the political means of the ruling regime to increase seats, reduce the voice of many states and enable the gerrymandering of constituencies to ensure unfair victories.
"The very amendment that would have ensured the total defeat of democracy and the Constitution in India stands rejected by the unity of the Opposition MPs," he wrote.
The legislation should have been called "Delimitation to ensure unfair victory Bill", the former minister said, adding that there was a genuine need to enable 33 per cent reservation for women in the current number of seats.
"Now, it is up to the government to ensure that it is implemented in the 543 seats of the Lok Sabha for the 2029 elections and all elections across India, if that is the real intent of the government," he wrote.
A Constitution Amendment Bill to implement reservation for women in legislatures in 2029 and increase the number of Lok Sabha seats was defeated on Friday in the Lower House.
While 298 members voted in support of the Bill, 230 MPs voted against it. Out of 528 members who voted, the Bill required 352 votes for a two-thirds majority.
According to the Constitution Amendment Bill, Lok Sabha seats were to be increased to a maximum of 850 from the current 543 to "operationalise" the women's reservation law before the 2029 parliamentary polls, following a delimitation exercise based on the 2011 Census.
