11,292 km long Human Chain formed in Bihar

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Patna : Possibly the world’s longest Human Chain was claimed to have been formed in Bihar on January 21 to create awareness about prohibition with CM Nitish Kumar, RJD chief Lalu Prasad, leader of opposition in Bihar assembly Prem Kumar and other political leaders participating in it. The Human Chain covered around 11,292 km involving two crore citizens.The previous record is of 1,050 km -lng human chain formed in Bangladesh in 2004.

The 45-minute-long human chain started at 12:15 pm at the historic Patna Gandhi Maidan when CM Nitish Kumar floated colourful balloons, and ended at 1 pm. Nitish joined hands with RJD supremo Lalu Prasad on the one side and state Legislative Assembly Speaker Vijay Kumar Chaudhary on the other to begin the chain of people. Bihar legislative Council Chairman Awdesh Narayan Singh, Deputy CM Tejaswi Yadav, state Congress President and minister Ashok Choudhary, NCP General Secretary and MP Tariq Anwar and a host of ministers and legislators held each other’s hand at the beginning of the chain. Opposition BJP, which lent support to the human chain joined the queue in Siwan, where their two-day state executive committee meeting began on January 21.
Top BJP leaders Sushil Kumar Modi, Union minister of state Ramkripal Yadav, Leader of Opposition in Bihar Assembly Prem Kumar, party national spokesman Shahnawaz Hussain and party MP from Maharajganj Janardan Singh Sigriwal joined each other’s hand in Siwan as part of Human Chain. Nitish, Lalu Prasad and other leaders stood in lines to form a map of Bihar at Gandhi Maidan. A picture of liquor bottle with a cross sign was drawn in the middle of this map to give the message against alcohol.Bihar was written in dark black colour in the middle of the map so that a clear picture of the event is captured through ISRO sattelite, drones and helicopters.

To display communal harmony, four children dressed in traditional attires of hindus, muslims, sikhs and christians stood by side with Nitish and Lalu Prasad. State congress president and education minister Ashok Choudhary, whose  department was the organiser of the programme told press that it was the biggest social congregation of people in the country after Independence.