Mar 25, 2018, 05:43PM IST

Source: Times Now

Union minister Ashwini Kumar Choubey’s son Arijit Shashwat Choubey has been named as an accused in one of the two FIRs lodged by police in connection with the violent clashes between two communities in Muslim-dominated Nathnagar on the outskirts of Bhagalpur. Arijit had gone ‘missing’ after being booked by the Bihar police. Several shops were vandalised during the clashes. Arijit had unsuccessfully contested the assembly election from Bhagalpur as a BJP candidate in 2015. According to the FIR, Arijit led the procession to celebrate the first day of Vikarm Samvat, the Hindu calendar. The clashes began when locals objected to the blocking of the procession which was playing Hindu religious songs. Minister Choubey said the Vikram Samvat procession had nothing to do with the clashes.