India, July 6 -- Launching a scathing attack on the Bihar government over the murder of businessman Gopal Khemka in Patna, senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday said the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Chief Minister Nitish Kumar have turned Bihar into India's "crime capital".

He said crime has become the "new normal" in Bihar, which goes to the polls later this year.

Urging the people to vote out the government that "cannot protect" their children, he said this was an election not to change the government, but to "save Bihar".

"Bihar's brothers and sisters, this injustice cannot be tolerated anymore. The government that cannot protect your children cannot take responsibility for your future. Every murder, loot and bullet is a...