Regret supporting government in Bihar, says BJP ally Chirag Paswan

Days after a woman in Bihar’s Gaya district was allegedly raped in an emergency vehicle, Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) chief Chirag Paswan on Saturday said that he regretted supporting the National Democratic Alliance government in the state, The Hindu reported.

The Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas), along with Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal (United), is part of the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance.

“I feel sorry to be supporting the government in Bihar, which is failing on the law and order front like this,” the newspaper quoted Paswan as telling reporters in Patna. “The way crime is happening in Bihar, the administration has totally bowed down before criminals.”

He said that the alleged rape that took place in Gaya on July 24 deserved to be condemned. “But why are such incidents happening?” the Union minister asked. “There is a series of crimes, and if it continues like this, the situation will become frightening or is already so.”

Claiming that crime had become uncontrolled in Bihar, Pawan accused the state government of “either trying to hush up the situation” or being unable to handle law and order in the state.

“If it is said that this is happening because of election, I can say it might possibly be so, and it might be a...

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