The controversy has also brought back memories of earlier incidents involving Kumar that had sparked debate over his public behaviour. Weeks before the Bihar Assembly elections in November, which the JD(U)-BJP alliance swept with over 200 seats in the 243-member House, Kumar had come under fire after a video showed him insisting on garlanding a woman candidate at a public meeting.In that video, shot during a poll rally in Muzaffarpur’s Minapur constituency, Kumar was seen attempting to garland Rama Nishad, the BJP candidate from Aurai. In local Hindu tradition, a woman is generally not garlanded by anyone other than her husband. Nishad appeared visibly uncomfortable, while JD(U) working president and Kumar’s close aide Sanjay Kumar Jha tried to stop him by grabbing his hand. Kumar briefly relented but then suddenly garlanded the woman, later remarking into the microphone, “Ee gajab aadmi hai bhai (What a strange man),” apparently referring to Jha.Citing such incidents, Jan Suraaj founder Prashant Kishor and several other leaders had, in the run-up to the elections, raised concerns about Kumar’s mental fitness to govern. Those remarks had triggered sharp political debate at the time.
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