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UPDATED: May 14, 2021 13:12 IST Shahabuddin being brought to Delhi from Siwan to be taken to Tihar jail, Feb. 19, 2017; Photo by Arvind Yadav/ Getty Images The strongman of Siwan, former RJD (Rashtriya Janata Dal) MP Mohammad Shahabuddin, who was serving a life sentence for murder in Delhi’s Tihar jail, succumbed to Covid in a Delhi hospital on May 1, nine days short of his 54th birthday. No sooner than the news broke, a silent yet determined move was discernible in the state to claim the support of the minority cohorts that swore by the Bihar bahubali. Though Bihar, like many other states, is under complete lockdown in an attempt to rein in a brutal second wave of the disease, politicians, cutting across party lines, have made their way to Siwan’s Pratappur village to commiserate with Shahabuddin’s son Osama Saheb, who is being groomed to inherit his father’s mantle. ....