Man chops finger over Nitish Kumar’s win

PATNA: Each time Nitish Kumar becomes CM of Bihar, Jehanabad native Anil Sharma, 53, expresses his happiness in a macabre way — by chopping off a finger. He cut one up on Friday when Nitish took oath of office for a fifth term. A resident of Oina village in Jehanabad district, about 53km from Patna, Sharma made a vain bid to meet Nitish in the state capital on Sunday.
“On November 20, around 2.34pm, I chopped off my left little finger with my sickle,” he told TOI over phone. “The finger was immersed in the Ganga after offering it to the deity in my village.”
Till now, Sharma has chopped off three of his fingers. He had earlier ‘sacrificed’ one finger each of his left hand in 2005 and in 2010, and offered them to the village deity. “I want to sell one of my Jersey cows to organise a feast in the village to celebrate Nitish’s grand victory,” he said.