Cops land up at ad agency's office

PATNA: With chief minister Nitish Kumar threatening legal action against the advertisers showing him holding hand with Gujarat CM Narendra Modi, the police swung into action with plainclothes men landing up at the office of Expression, the agency that issued the ad. The owner of the agency, Arindam Guha, however, denied that the office was "raided". "There was no raid on my office by any law enforcing agency," he said.
Guha said his office provided the cops with some documents, and that the advertisement was released from Gujarat.The formal order, he added, was issued to his agency through email. He said that the advertisement designs, too, were received via email and not created by his agency.
Guha said that some businessmen from Gujarat, who were originally from Bihar, have clarified that they had released the advertisement welcoming the Gujarat CM without any motives. The businessmen who had sponsored the advertisement said they had been beneficiaries of Gujarat's all-round progress under the leadership of Narendra Modi.
They seemed to suggest that they held both Narendra Modi and Nitish Kumar as able leaders of their people.
Official sources said that the money for the advertisements was paid in cash in Surat and efforts are on to verify the sponsors.