patna union minister of state for health ashwini kumar choubey on saturday refused to explain the centres thinking on the childrens deaths caused by acute encephalitis syndrome aes in muzaffarpur and other districts in the statechoubey was attending the meetings of bjps core committee and officebearers held separately to deliberate on the partys membership drive bihar health minister ko bulaaoonga aapko bataoonga first i will call a meeting with bihar health minister in delhi for a discussion and then inform you about it he saidincidentally two other senior ministers in the nitish kumar government deputy cm sushil kumar modi and health minister mangal pandey also avoided any statement on the matterearly this month nitish and health department principal secretary sanjay kumar had explained the situation besides mentioning the preventive steps taken and described the aes as an annual feature that starts with the onset of summer heat and begins to subside with the monsoonon saturday the matter suddenly took a sensational turn as sections of the media zeroed in on the skeletons found behind skmch and took to interpreting as the stealth funeral or the burial of the persons who had died due to aesgiven the situation neither the state ministers nor even the spokespersons of the major allies jdu and the bjp have been making any observation on the situationon saturday the participants in the state bjps two organizational meetings observed a twominute silence to mourn the deaths of children later state health minister pandey explained the situation before them in the presence of choubey