Bihar’s Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav on Monday hit back at the “jungle raj-2” allegation levelled by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its allies and wondered whether terrorist attacks and hoisting of Pakistani flags under the NDA-led Centre also meant “jungle raj” in the country.
“If on the basis of a few criminal incidents there is jungle raj in Bihar, then it could be said that ‘jungle raj or Aatank Raj’ (rule of terror) prevails in the country,” Yadav, son of Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad, posted on his facebook page.
“What is the crime rate in Delhi where law and order is under the Central government? It is not hidden from anybody,” he said, adding that if the Opposition needed he could provide the crime data on the same.
Yadav’s comment came a day after Union Minister and Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) chief Ramvilas Paswan attacked the state government over deaths, including those of engineers in Darbhanga by claiming “jungle raj-2” had returned to Bihar.