02 December,2010 12:59 PM IST | | Agencies
A man in Bihar was so happy at Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's return to power that he chopped off a finger as an offering to god - for the second time in five years.
Anil Sharma, a resident of Ghoshi in Jehanabad district, cut off his finger at a temple.
"I chopped off a finger and offered it to god as I had vowed I would do so if Nitish Kumar returned to power for a second term," Sharma, who is not well off, said on Thursday.
He had done the same when Nitish Kumar came to power in November 2005.
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This time Sharma said he was impressed by the chief minister's development plank and his pro-people work in the last five years.
When asked why he had chopped his finger now, and not a week ago when Nitish Kumar actually emerged the winner, Sharma said his family members had been trying to persuade him against it.
Sharma's act has made him a household name in Jehanabad. Some called it sheer madness and others called it a way to express one's happiness.
Nitish Kumar's Janata Dal-United (JD-U) and its ally Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has have together got 206 of the 243 seats in the assembly.
