Patna, March 17 -- Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Tejashwi Yadav on Monday hit out at Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar-led government, alleging that the government is "giving protection to the criminals".

Yadav, a former Deputy Chief Minister, also attacked the government over the law and order situation in the state following the murder of the Assistant Sub-Inspector earlier in the month.

"The government is giving protection to the criminals. That is why the morale of the criminals is very high. That ASI, those people who have been charged with the security of the people, if those policemen are not secure, they are being killed, they are being assaulted, not at one place but across Bihar, then who has remained secure here then?", he told...