Covid-19: Nitish under pressure after UP brings back students from Kota

Leader of the Opposition Tejashwi Yadav issued an open letter addressed to the chief minister, wherein he charged the state government with treating its own people like infiltrators

The opposition in Bihar put pressure on Chief Minister Nitish Kumar after UP CM Adityanath brought back students from Kota to Uttar Pradesh, but Kumar disapproved of the move saying such steps would make a mockery of the nationwide lockdown.

At a meeting to review the pandemic in the state that lasted hours through video-conferencing on Saturday, Kumar said that only social distancing can protect people in this hour of crisis, news agency PTI reported.

Referring to the return of more than 40 people, including students and guardians, from the Rajasthan town earlier this week, which had evoked a strong