The procession was taken out from Ramjanaki temple with 5100 'kalashas' (religious urns) in the presence of various Hindu religious dignitaries including Mahamandaleshwar of 13 Akhadas, Mahants and Shankaracharyas.
In the prerecorded message, late CDS General Rawat had invited Indians to join the country in celebrations of 50 years of victory in the 1971 India-Pakistan war which culminated into creation of Bangladesh.
For months, the Dalit and Dalit Sikh communities of Punjab have been protesting against the state government for inaction on the demands they had laid down in connection to loan waiver, land ownership, work under NREGA and many more.
The victim student is the son of a priest of ISKCON temple in Gaya and studies at Kendriya Vidyalaya. The child also said that the teacher threatened to skin him if he told anyone about the incident
In September 2020, the Twitter account of Prime Minister Modi that was linked to his personal website was hacked. A series of tweets promoting cryptocurrency was published during the brief period.