For a large ceremony in Patna featuring President Pranab Mukherjee, senior BJP leaders decided at the last minute that they would not show in because regional leader Lalu Yadav and Congress boss Rahul Gandhi were to be seated on the same stage. The occasion was the -year anniversary of the famous satyagraha or civil disobedience movement that Mahatma Gandhi launched in Champaran in Bihar against the British.
