Uproar in Bihar Assembly over hit-and-run case

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The Bihar Assembly was on Tuesday adjourned till 2 pm following a ruckus over the recent hit-and-run case in Muzaffarpur that claimed the lives of nine children. Manoj Baitha, a district-level BJP worker from Sitamarhi, has been accused of mowing down the children with his SUV on Saturday. He was suspended from the saffron party on Monday night for a period of six years after an FIR was lodged against him in connection with the case.

As soon as the House assembled on Tuesday morning, an adjournment motion over the hit-and-run case was moved by RJD MLAs Samir Kumar Mahaseth, Sweety Hembrom, Ejya Yadav and Shakti Singh Yadav. Speaker Vijay Kumar Choudhary, however, rejected the motion. Leader of Opposition Tejashwi Yadav said, "When Pradyumn was recently killed inside a school at Gurugram, it led to a public outcry. Did the lives of nine deceased children from Muzaffarpur have less value just because they came from backward classes."

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