Nitish Kumar sets new condition: Have toilet, contest elections

"My head sinks with shame when I am told that over 600 million people in India or 53 per cent of Indian households today have to suffer the humiliation of defecating in the open," he said.

It is sad Kumar said, as WHO has noted, that "every day, nearly two billion tonne of human faeces, with a dizzying number of potential viruses, bacteria and worm eggs, are lying around our planet ready to be trodden on, touched or ingested in water and food".