16/03/2007
Mumbai: It seemed like a perfect end to a day of sight-seeing in Bihar's world famous tourist sites in Rajgir, Nalanda and Bodhgaya, an embodiment of peace and tranquillity.
And yet when we thanked Bhiku Bodhipala, Chief Priest of Bodhgaya Temple Management Committee, for showing fellow journalist Rahi Bhide and me the temple complex, he said we should arrange police escort while returning to Patna.
Earlier, when we set out in the morning, our host, Governor of Bihar R.S. Gavai sent us off with a constable, a state employee and a driver with a warning to return before 11pm.
He had informed us that 90 per cent of Bihar's law and order problem was under control and only 10 per cent had to be tackled.
However, on Monday evening we got a taste of that 10 per cent of disorder in that state, notorious for its crime and Naxalite problem.
Mumbai: It seemed like a perfect end to a day of sight-seeing in Bihar's world famous tourist sites in Rajgir, Nalanda and Bodhgaya, an embodiment of peace and tranquillity.
And yet when we thanked Bhiku Bodhipala, Chief Priest of Bodhgaya Temple Management Committee, for showing fellow journalist Rahi Bhide and me the temple complex, he said we should arrange police escort while returning to Patna.
Earlier, when we set out in the morning, our host, Governor of Bihar R.S. Gavai sent us off with a constable, a state employee and a driver with a warning to return before 11pm.
He had informed us that 90 per cent of Bihar's law and order problem was under control and only 10 per cent had to be tackled.
However, on Monday evening we got a taste of that 10 per cent of disorder in that state, notorious for its crime and Naxalite problem.
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