BJP President Amit Shah and three other senior party leaders were trapped inside a lift of the state guest house here for around 40 minutes, an incident which triggered a blame game between the saffron party and the Nitish Kumar government which attributed it to overloading.
"The lift got stuck between the two floors and its metal doors also got jammed at around 11.30 PM last night. There was no lift operator around or person capable of handling such an emergency. The mobile phones of those trapped inside were also out of range as they were in a closed box," BJP state President Mangal Pandey said.
The incident happened when Shah was going from the ground floor of the state guest house to the first floor along with party in-charge for Bihar Bhupendra Yadav, Secretary Nagendra and General Secretary Saudan Singh and a couple of security personnel. Read more here.
This is how Lalu reacted
Lalu Yadav reacting to #AmitShah getting stuck in a lift in Patna pic.twitter.com/UylBsSBmJw
— ANI (@ANI_news) August 21, 2015
Twitter reactions
Guess the lift could not take the weight of the criminal cases against him..murder, conspiracy, extortion etc https://t.co/7mXu7TenR8
— Rana Ayyub (@RanaAyyub) August 21, 2015
God started Testing ..> BJP President Amit Shah trapped inside lift in Bihar due to overloading - See more at: http://t.co/XjACdglaoz
— Sirach (@AnAstute) August 21, 2015
I think Adnan Sami sang that "lift" song before Amit Shah did...
— ranjona banerji (@ranjona) August 21, 2015
Amit Shah got stuck in a lift? Otis the matter with this country?
— Ramesh Srivats (@rameshsrivats) August 21, 2015
Amit Shah was stuck in a lift. The real question is... Was it Schindler's?
— Utsav Chakraborty (@Shockraborty) August 21, 2015