It was indeed a bizarre protest indulged into by angry locals in Muzaffarpur town of Bihar on Monday when they performed "jalabhishek" on Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and District Magistrate Dharmendra Singh in order to make their voice heard.

In fact, what triggered locals into doing something bizarre like performing "jalabhishek" on Nitish was the increasing crime graph in the district and especially the terror being unleashed by the land mafias who were openly indulging in land grabbing. Incidentally, the land mafia recently had grabbed land of a army jawan soldier hailing from Muzaffarpur and several organizations united in support of him and had give several requisition to DM Dharmendra Singh in the last one month but to no avail.

"We have written application to the DM to free the land of the army jawan from the land mafias but till date the administration has not taken any action in this direction", said Anay Raj, a local.

Early morning on Monday, at least 40-50 men and women clad in saffron colored dress assembled at the Gandak river and collected water from the river and later marched to the district magistrate's office like a "kanwar yatra". There they poured water on the pictures of Nitish and DM amidst holy chants praying for good sense to prevail on both.

"We have performed "jalabhishek" on Nitish and Dharmendra Singh and prayed to God that both rise from their slumber and take stock on the worsening law and order in the town", said a local.

This perhaps was one of the bizarre ways of protesting witnessed in recent times.