Watch: Nitish Kumar bows to touch PM’s feet at Bihar event. Here’s how Modi reacted

This was not the first time Nitish Kumar tried to touch PM Modi’s feet (Image: Screengrab/X)

A video of Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar and Prime Minister Narendra Modi is going viral across social media platforms. In the video, the 73-year-old JD(U) leader can be seen approaching the Prime Minister with folded hands and bowing to touch his feet.

This marks the third such instance between the two leaders in 2023.

As Kumar reaches in front of PM Modi, he bows down to touch his feet. However, he was immediately stopped by the Prime Minister, who then shakes hand with Nitish.

VIDEO | Bihar CM Nitish Kumar (@NitishKumar) was stopped by PM Modi as the former bowed down to touch his feet during an event in Darbhanga earlier today.(Full video available on PTI Videos - https://t.co/n147TvrpG7) pic.twitter.com/jFFvu5LK1m

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This happened during a function in Bihar’s Darbhanga, where the Prime Minister had arrived to lay the foundation stone for All India Institute Of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) and inaugurated projects worth more than Rs 12,000 crore.

This was not the first time that Nitish Kumar tried to touch PM Modi’s feet. In June, the chief minister unexpectedly bent down to touch Modi's feet in Parliament's Central Hall. Additionally, he had briefly touched the Prime Minister's feet at a Lok Sabha election rally in Nawada in April, a video of which had gone viral.

During the event, Modi showered accolades on the chief minister, praising the alliance partner for bringing in good governance in a state which was previously reeling under "jungle raj".

In his address, which lasted for nearly 40 minutes, the Prime Minister referred to Kumar -- whose JD(U) played a crucial role in enabling the NDA's return to power in the parliamentary elections earlier this year -- as "lokpriya mukhyamantri" (popular chief minister).

Modi said, “Nitish babu has set up a model of sushasan (good governance)."

He added, “No praise is too high for him for his contribution in pulling Bihar out of the era of jungle raj. Now, under the NDA’s double engine government, the state is making rapid, all-round progress."