Nine years after Bihar's political landscape was rocked by allegations of a Rs 5,500 crore treasury heist, RJD leader and Leader of the Opposition Tejashwi Yadav has ensured the wound stays open — posting a sharp reminder on Sunday, August 9, 2026 that not a single rupee has been accounted for. Yadav's post, written in Hindi, marks the ninth anniversary of what opposition circles call the Srijan scam — the alleged diversion of government funds from Bihar's welfare schemes into private accounts. 'Nine years later, there is no account, no reckoning of the looted Rs 5,500 crore,' he wrote, targeting Chief Minister Nitish Kumar directly and accusing Kumar's 'favourite leaders, ministers and officials' of engineering the transfers.

What the Srijan Allegations Said

The Srijan scam first surfaced publicly in 2017, centred on a Bihar-based NGO called Srijan Mahila Vikas Sahyog Samiti. Investigators alleged that funds from government accounts — including rural development and welfare scheme money — were systematically transferred to the NGO's accounts and then siphoned further into private hands. The scale alleged: approximately Rs 5,500 crore over several years. Arrests were made, cases registered, and central investigative agencies stepped in. But the opposition has consistently argued that the probe was deliberately blunted before it could reach politically inconvenient doors.

The BJP Connection Tejashwi Is Pressing

Yadav did not stop at the state government. His post alleged that 'clear evidence of transactions and close ties between several senior BJP leaders and central ministers with the accused was found' — but that investigative agencies 'buried everything.' This is a claim the research flags as unverified, and no court has returned findings on it. Still, as a political charge, it lands with precision: it ties the scam simultaneously to Bihar's ruling alliance and to the national BJP, framing the investigation's perceived stall as a feature, not a failure. His closing couplet — 'Srijan ke durjan kar rahe aaraam' (the villains of Srijan are resting easy) — carries the sardonic bite of opposition poetry, a genre Bihar's political culture has long weaponised.

Why the Ninth Anniversary and Not the Tenth?

The timing is deliberate. Bihar's political calendar is never idle, and Yadav's RJD has made accountability on legacy corruption cases a consistent plank against the Nitish Kumar-led JD(U)-BJP coalition. Raising the Srijan case annually keeps the narrative alive in public memory, particularly among rural beneficiaries whose scheme funds were allegedly diverted. The tenth anniversary next year will carry even more symbolic weight — and Yadav is clearly warming up the argument. The money, by the RJD's own telling, is still missing. The accused, by the opposition's account, are still comfortable. That is the charge Tejashwi Yadav wants Bihar to carry into every election conversation until someone proves otherwise.