PATNA:

pelted stones on cars of Saran district magistrate Harihar Prasad and SP Anusuya Ransingh Sahu on Thursday. However, Times Now showed the RJD supporters brandishing rods thrashed the district magistrate, with chaos ruling the scene.

Both the officers, along with other officials, had reached the newly inaugurated JP Bridge in Sonpur connecting the district with Patna that was blocked by the supporters on Thursday morning after chief minister

, in a dramatic way, parted away with the

government by tendering resignation and announced forming new government with BJP in the state.

The DM said that the supporters had blocked the bridge at around 10am by burning tyres which resulted in a several kilometres long traffic blockade.

"Three constables received injuries during the stone pelting when we had reached the spot to pacify the supporters to clear the blockade. The administration was more cautious to avoid any violent situation looking at the presence of people in vehicles," the DM said, adding that the blockade was cleared at around 2pm. The violence also took place at RJD chief Lalu Prasad's native village Phulwaria in Gopalganj district on Thursday.

Sources from Gopalganj said that Lalu's elder brother Mangu Yadav's grandson Lav Kush Yadav led a mob of RJD supporters at Phulwaria which first brought down all banners, of Nitish Kumar displaying several developmental projects, erected around Phulwari block office and torched them.

Later, the RJD supporters forcibly kicked out all employees working at the block office and locked the entire building to avoid anyone's entry.

The violence continued to for almost two hours starting from around 10pm. Security forces from at least four surrounding police stations were rushed to the area only after the situation was brought under control. Protest also took place at Mania Chowk in the district where effigy of the chief minister was burned.

Earlier in the morning, RJD supporters also blocked the Gandhi Setu for several hours near pillar number-1 under Ganga Bridge police station in Vaishali district by burning tyres which also created a huge traffic blockade.

In Samastipur, an overbridge in Town area was blocked for several hours by RJD supporters for several hours. The bridge is a part of the state highway connecting Patna, Samastipur and Darbhanga. Samastipur SP Naval Kishore Singh said that district police was already on alert after receiving message from police headquarters looking at the drastically changing political situation.

In Muzaffarpur, protest took place at Zoran Chappra, Islampur and Kalyani Chowk in Muzaffarpur district where RJD supporters torched the effigies of CM Kumar.

In Patna, RJD supporters took put a protest march from the party headquarter at Birchand Patel Path to Income Tax roundabout and burnt effigy of Nitish Kumar. However, they failed to create any ruckus or block traffic movement as police quickly dispersed them. Police were kept on extra alert at the state capital looking at violence that had taken place in the past.