In Anusha Rizvi's 2010 comedy-drama film, Peepli Live, when Nattha (played by Onkar Das Manikpuri) goes missing, sparking a frenzy, it takes a pile of poop to shake up the whole village and trigger a hunt. In 2025, in Bihar's Purnea, all it took was a pile of poop to stir a controversy at the city's newly inaugurated airport. The airport received an unpleasant gift from a man from Madhepura district, almost 99 kilometres to the west, across the Koshi, according to a content creator from Purnea. It was all defecation drama omn social media amid the Assembly election in Bihar .

And the "hug", the headline claims, wasn't the English kind. It wasn't about affection. It's the Hindi kind from the heartland, if the creator's story held up.

But, there's a bit of a twist to the story ahead. S

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