Patna: " Suno, babu, baat samjho (Listen, child, and understand)" - that's how the usually reticent chief minister Nitish Kumar gave a piece of his mind to leader of Opposition in the Assembly Tejashwi Yadav on Monday during a debate in the post-lunch session.

Energy minister Bijendra Yadav was giving the government reply on the budgetary demand of the home department after the debate when Tejashwi intervened and sought Speaker Vijay Kumar Chaudhary's permission, stating that he had some information to share.

The former deputy chief minister claimed that for the past four hours areas of a particular minority community - he named the community - were being attacked in Aurangabad and curfew had been imposed there.

His statement visibly upset the chief minister, who told the minister to continue reading his reply. As Opposition members including Tejashwi stood at their places and continued speaking, the chief minister stood up to speak.

He started talking about the importance of communal harmony and also mentioned that there were some elements in the society who wanted to create disturbance. When Tejashwi tried to intervene, Nitish lost his cool and asked Abdul Bari Siddiqui why the senior RJD leader did not give some training to the leader of Opposition.

The CM then addressed Tejashwi: " Suno, babu! Baat samjho."

Nitish then elaborated on the steps being taken by his government to control the situation in Aurangabad, and also said that rumours should not be raised in the discussion of the House.

Tejashwi again tried to intervene, at which Nitish reiterated: " Suno, babu!"

He also went on to tell Tejashwi, who was standing on his seat, that he didn't indulge in verbal duels.

After this Nitish became a bit aggressive and virtually admonished Tejashwi: "Such issues should not be raised in this manner. If you do so, it would be construed that you intend to spark communal tension."

At this juncture, deputy CM Sushil Kumar Modi was seen prompting the chief minister, after which Nitish informed the House that no curfew had been imposed in Aurangabad and there had been no police firing.

Maintaining the aggression, the chief minister stated that no culprit involved in incidents related to Aurangabad would be spared by the government.

Police sources said Section 144 (prohibitory orders) had been imposed in Aurangabad since Sunday after a communal flare-up.