Nityanand Rai claimed that RJD is responsible for crimes in Bihar.

Nityanand Rai claimed that RJD is responsible for crimes in Bihar.

Patna, September 5: Nityanand Rai, the Union Minister of State (MoS) for Home, has intensified his criticism of the leader of the opposition Tejashwi Yadav, by claiming that RJD is responsible for a significant portion of the crime in Bihar.

During an interaction with the media persons at Patna Airport, Nityanand Rai accused RJD of sheltering criminals, saying, “It is the tradition of RJD. If RJD workers stop their hooliganism and extortion, crime cases would drastically decline in Bihar.”

“Tejashwi Yadav is publically attacking the Bihar government but he is leading these hooligans in the state. He himself leading the hooligans, then what can he teach others,” Nityanand Rai said.

Neeraj Kumar, the MLC of JD (U) echoed similar sentiments. He challenged Tejashwi Yadav to release crime statistics from the time when the Grand Alliance government, including the RJD, was in power, noting that 8832 murders occurred during that period.

The remarks of Nityanand Rai and Neeraj Kumar came in response to the crime bulletin released by Tejashwi Yadav to criticize the Nitish Kumar government of Bihar on Wednesday.

Tejashwi Yadav listed 105 criminal incidents on X (Formally Twitter) from recent days to underscore his concerns about the law-and-order situation under the Nitish Kumar’s administration.

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He wrote, “Soul-shaking criminal statistics of the last few days. If even after seeing the horrific figures of these incidents, you are seeing everything right in Bihar, then it means that everything is not right.”

The ongoing back-and-forth reflects the deepening political revelry, with Yadav using crime data to pressure Nitish Kumar, while JD (U) and BJP leaders attribute the state’s challenges to the RJD’s history.

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