Patna, Sept. 13 -- union Health Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) National President JP Nadda launched a sharp attack on the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), recalling what he described as the "dark era" of jungle raj in Bihar.
He accused the party and its supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav and Bihar's opposition leader Tejaswi Yadav of pushing the state into lawlessness, family rule and caste-based politics during their regime.
Addressing a public meeting, Nadda said that there was a vast difference between law and order issues and "state-supported crimes," alleging that the RJD era represented the latter. "People ask us to forget jungle raj, but its memories are etched on the minds of the people. Bihar was systematically destroyed during that...