Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, who advised union Home Minister P. Chidambarm not to speak too much on the government’s fight against Maoists, however, chose not to be economical with words himself last week.
At his press conference at the Indian Women’s Press Corps, Kumar spoke for almost two hours going into great details when asked about the Maoist threat, food security bill, women’s reservation bill and ties with the Bharatiya Janata Party.
As he went on and on, a few cameramen ran out of their stock of tapes. Print journalists too gave up taking notes, prompting a bored scribe to remark that the press conference had turned into a discussion.
