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          Patna, Sep 27 (IANS) Police opened fire and lobbed tear smoke   shells in Bihar's Khagaria district Thursday after protestors pelted stones at   the convoy of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and attacked the collectorate,   demanding special status for their region, officials said.
 |  The chief minister was in Khagaria as part of his 'Adhikar Yatra' when   protestors welcomed him with violent protest. They also set on fire police   vehicles and a part of the Khagaria Collectrate building. 
 Police cane   charged the protestors to control them and fired in the air to disperse the   unruly mob of hundreds of people, mostly youths demanding special status to the   district and improvement of electricity supply, an official said.
 
 Some   contractual para-teachers also joined the protest against Nitish Kumar in   Khagaria, police said.
 
 "The situation is tense in Khagaria town but under   control after additional security forces were deployed to check anti-social   elements, who were involved in violence," Khagaria District Magistrate   Dharmendra Singh said.
 
 Earlier, contractual para-teachers protested   against Nitish Kumar in Begusarai. They showed slippers to him. Some activists   of the National Students Union of India (NSUI) showed black flags to the chief   minister to express their anger against acute power shortage.
 
 Teachers   also protested against Nitish Kumar in Madhubani, East Champaran, Sitamarhi and   Muzaffarpur districts.
 
    
	
	
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