Bihar sachiv fails to recognise RJD vidhayak. Then came a Panchayat-style threat

In a scene straight out of the Panchayat web series, a Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) MLA appeared to be locked in a spat with a local panchayat secretary — not on screen, but in real life.

A purported audio clip, featuring Bhai Virendra, an RJD legislator from Maner, has gone viral on social media. In the recording, the MLA can be heard berating a government official over the phone for not recognising him and then threatening to hit him with shoes.

According to the viral clip, Bhai Virendra had called a local panchayat secretary in his constituency to enquire about the status of a death certificate for one Rinki Devi. However, when the secretary failed to recognise him, the MLA erupted. "You don't know Bhai Virendra? You want me to introduce myself? The whole country knows me," the voice, purportedly of Bhai Virendra, can be heard saying.

The secretary, unfazed, responds, "If you speak respectfully, I will do the same. If you talk crooked, I will talk crooked. I am not scared of you".

The MLA hits back, "Joote se maarunga (I will hit you with a shoe) and you can file a case if you want. You don't follow protocol. You dare to say who is Bhai Virendra?"

The official, maintaining his composure, insists that he wasn't aware of the MLA's identity and asks for a straight conversation. "Please talk about the work. Your request is already in process," he says, urging the MLA to refrain from issuing threats.

However, the verbal volley continued, with the MLA saying, "You have no right to this job if you don't know your local MLA. Transfer? This won’t stop at transfer. Where are you even from?"

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The exchange bears an uncanny resemblance to the tension between MLA Chandrakishore Singh and Secretary Abhishek Tripathi in the Amazon Prime show Panchayat, where ego, power, and protocol routinely collide in the dusty lanes of rural administration.

India Today could not independently verify the authenticity of the viral clip, although the voice resembled that of Bhai Virendra. The RJD MLA has not publicly responded to the viral clip yet.

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