Patna, Aug 23: In a shocking development, an ambulance was stopped in Patna when the convoy of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar was passing through. Several videos of the incident went viral on social media.
The incident occurred on Monday when the ambulance was carrying a patient who was to be admitted to the emergency ward.
In the 30-second video of the purported incident, an ambulance with patients is seen waiting on the roadside and a man is heard saying, "People inside the ambulance are crying here and here Nitish jis convoy is going. The public is waiting and Nitish ji is going. This is Bihar? This is humanity?"
Another man could be heard saying, "Public, patients bhuka rahe, Neta Ji mauj kare."
Bharatiya Janata Party IT cell head Amit Malviya slammed Nitish Kumar for "insensitivity".
Sharing the video on X, formerly known as Twitter, Malviya said, “Look at the insensitivity of Nitish Kumar who is dreaming of becoming the prime minister. They can put someone's life at stake so that the speed of their convoy does not decrease.”
Further, Malviya compared Kumar to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and said, “On the one hand, where Modi ji stopped many times not only his convoy but even roadshows to give way to the ambulance, Nitish Babu did not think at all about the family crying in the ambulance.”
Calling the incident shameful, Malviya also lashed out at the Janata Dal (United) and Rashtriya Janata Dal coalition government in Bihar and said that this was the “truth of the arrogant coalition of corrupt and insensitive people.”