Art, culture and youth affairs minister Vinay Bihari on Monday threatened an indefinite hunger strike in front of chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi’s official residence in March if the state government failed to remove the CRPF’s administrative office from Moinul Haque Stadium within three months.

Citing the administrative building of the 131st battalion of the CRPF as the roadblock in renovating the stadium, Bihari told The Telegraph: “I had a talk with the chief minister in connection with its (the CRPF office) removal and requested him to take up the matter with the Centre. If the office is not removed by March next year, I shall take extreme steps. I shall even stage an indefinite hunger strike in front of 1 Aney Marg.”

The address of Bihar chief minister’s official residence is 1 Aney Marg. The house is located on the road named after the state’s second post-Independence governor, Madhav Shrihari Aney, who held office from January 1948 to June 1952.

Bihari said: “The detailed project report (DPR) for the renovation of the stadium is ready, but things are not moving as it should just because of the CRPF office. I have been trying from my end to get it shifted but the state government and the Centre has to co-ordinate and get the things moving.”

Moinul Haque Stadium is the address of the administrative office of the 131st battalion of the CRPF for more than a decade now. The state government had talked tough on its removal after national-level kabaddi player Manisha Devi was shot dead by CRPF jawan Yashwant Singh outside the stadium on February 10, 2011. Then chief minister Nitish Kumar had said the administrative office of the CRPF would be removed soon. But three years down the line, it is still there.

Bihari, the art, culture and youth affairs minister, said: “I have been seeing the office of the CRPF for a long time now. There have been a lot of talks about its removal but the state government has not taken any concrete step so far. The chief minister had recently gone to Delhi for a meeting with the Prime Minister and I had requested him to take up this matter with him. I am not sure what transpired in the national capital but one thing is certain: I have set a deadline of three months and if the CRPF office is not removed by then I shall go on a hunger strike.”

Bihari had said in August that a letter had been sent to the Union ministry of home affairs in connection with the removal of the CRPF office from the stadium. “But we have not heard from the Centre yet. Unless the CRPF’s administrative office is removed, how can any work start in the stadium? The tender process is on the last leg and the CRPF office has to be removed to start the stadium renovation work,” the minister added.

Earlier, principal home secretary Amir Subhani had told The Telegraph that his department was also keen to shift the administrative building of the CRPF, but it was difficult to find an alternative space.