Patna,(BiharTimes): Agriculture minister Narendra Singh said on Wednesday that he had received a threat over phone at 8:47 this morning while he was sitting beside chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi.

He said that he could not clearly hear the full name of the caller, but it was some Chaudhary. “The caller threatened me of dire consequences for supporting chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi,” he said.

The minister said that initially he could not understand vividly as to what he was saying, so he asked the caller to repeat. “When he repeated I sought the attention of chief minister who also heard what the caller said,” Narendra Singh said.He said that he never imagined that the standard of politics would touch so low.