Chirag Paswan, whose party, the LJP (RV), is an NDA constituent, Saturday tore into the Bihar government over a series of crimes that have made headlines of late. “I feel sad that I am supporting a government here where crime is completely out of control. It is important to control this, otherwise, the way lives of Bihar and Biharis are being played with, Bihar will head towards a very bad outcome,” he said, in a scathing indictment of Nitish Kumar’s JD(U), also an NDA ally.
Paswan’s comments came on a day the state was rocked by another heinous crime – the alleged rape of an unconscious woman inside an ambulance by the driver and a technician. The woman had fainted while attempting a Home Guard test.
Ahead of his visit to Gaya, Paswan said: “Look, one after another, Bihar has seen a series of criminal incidents, and the administration seems to be completely bowing down before the criminals. It is true that what happened is as condemnable and as shameful as it gets; action has also been taken, arrests have been made. But the first question is, why do such incidents keep happening in the first place? The way murders, kidnappings, robberies, dacoities, rapes are happening one after another in Bihar, it has become a series of such incidents, and now it seems as if the administration is completely failing to control them.”
“And if things keep going like this, it will create a very dreadful situation in our state in the coming days. Actually, such a situation has already arisen. Ask the families who have lost their loved ones about their condition. Ask the girls who have suffered such incidents about their condition,” he said.
“Nowadays, it is even being said that, because of elections, anti-social elements are carrying out such activities. If elections are also a reason – and in some way, I too accept that perhaps elections are also one reason and maybe, to malign the government, some people are conspiring and executing these incidents – but even then, the responsibility lies with the administration to control them. How is any criminal able to commit such acts in your state when the administration is present? Either the administration is colluding with them, or the administration is trying to cover up these acts, or else the administration has become completely incompetent and is no longer capable of keeping Bihar and Biharis safe,” he said.
