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 Patna: The fact that they were shown on national television, flinging chairs at each other, might have led some to believe that Bihar MLAs would be on their best behaviour today. Not so. On Wednesday, slippers were thrown at the Speaker of the Bihar Assembly.Marshalls or security guards had to evict Opposition MLAs from the parties headed by Lalu Prasad Yadav and Ram Vilas Paswan. Seventeen MLAs from Lalu's RJD and Paswan's LJP have been suspended for the rest of the session. And amid the chaos, Jyoti Singh, a woman MLC belonging to the Congress, threw several flower pots around. She claims she was manhandled by the marshals.
On Tuesday, the Opposition attacked - physically and verbally - members of the government, demanding the resignation of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, and his deputy, Sushil Kumar Modi. The Opposition accuses them of embezzling 11,000 crores.
The protests and accusations are shaped by the fact that Bihar votes for its next government in just a few months. The Opposition seems to view the violence in the Assembly - for two days in a row - as an announcement of sorts of its election campaign.
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