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<\/div>\nThe MLA was also heard hurling expletives at the reporters surrounding him.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Janata Dal United (JDU) MLA Gopal Mandal got enraged when asked by journalists why he had carried a revolver to a hospital recently and said, “Baap ho ki mana karoge<\/em>?”<\/p>\n “Ha, lehrayethe (Yes, I brandished my weapon). Tum log humare baap ho ki mana karoge<\/em>? (Are you my father that you will stop me?)” the JDU Minister said in a heated moment, speaking to reporters in Patna on Friday.<\/p>\n The MLA was also heard hurling expletives at the reporters surrounding him.<\/p>\n However, initially, Mr Mandal tried to tone down his action saying that he had placed his revolver in his pyjamas and it slipped.<\/p>\n “I had taken the revolver and kept it in my pyjama. Just when I placed my foot on the stairs it slipped. Are you journalists or what. I find it difficult placing it on my waist,” he said.<\/p>\n The JDU MLA waded into a controversy when a video surfaced in which he was purportedly holding a pistol while walking into the state-run Jawahar Lal Nehru Medical College and Hospital in Bihar’s Bhagalpur.<\/p>\n The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has earlier criticised the Nitish Kumar government in Bihar for bringing about ‘jungle raj<\/em>‘ (reign of crime) in the state. The video offers fresh ammunition to the BJP.<\/p>\n (Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n