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Learn to enjoy your drink on the sly, like 'bada sahibs': Manjhi's advice to poor in dry Bihar

Former Bihar chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi on Saturday advised underdogs of the dry State to learn the art of enjoying their drink on the sly from their wealthy counterparts whose bacchanalia does not land them in jails.

Mr. Manjhi, whose Hindustani Awam Morcha is a junior partner in the State's ruling coalition, made the remarks during a candid conversation with journalists in course of which he frowned upon the prohibition law introduced by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for the umpteenth time.

“Anarth ho rahaa hai” (what is happening is outrageous), remarked Mr. Manjhi referring to the arrest of a drunken man, reported in a section of the media, who had got tipsy after a day's hard work and squatted on the roadside causing a racket, only to be hauled up by the men in uniform who subjected him to a breath analyser test before throwing him behind bars.

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