Bihar's law-and-order record is back under sharp political fire. RJD leader and Leader of the Opposition Tejashwi Yadav launched a sweeping attack on the Nitish Kumar government on Thursday, September 24, 2026, accusing the ruling administration of presiding over daily murders, kidnappings, rapes and rampant corruption — while police, he charged, are busy with money-laundering under the cover of alcohol prohibition enforcement.

In his post, Yadav wrote: 'बिहार में प्रतिदिन हत्याएं हो रही है' — 'Murders are happening every day in Bihar.' He listed looting, abductions, ransom demands and sexual violence against women and girls as compounding failures, and accused local police stations and block-level offices of being riddled with corruption. Most pointedly, he alleged that the police force is 'busy in money-laundering in the name of prohibition' — a direct jab at the flagship 2016 statewide alcohol ban that has been a defining plank of the Nitish Kumar administration.

The prohibition barb and what it carries

Bihar's prohibition law, enforced since April 2016, bans the manufacture, sale and consumption of alcohol across the entire state. The policy was championed by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar as a social-welfare measure, and it enjoys considerable support among women voters. But enforcement has long been a flashpoint — critics have repeatedly alleged that the prohibition regime has spawned a parallel economy of bribes, illicit liquor and police complicity rather than eliminating alcohol. Yadav's charge that police are engaged in 'dhan shodhna' — money-laundering — under prohibition's banner is the sharpest version of that critique, one the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) has been developing for years.

Yadav's use of the phrase 'batolebaaz mukhyamantri' — roughly, 'a Chief Minister of empty talk' — was designed to land as a character indictment, not just a policy complaint. It is the kind of language that is aimed squarely at Bihar's vernacular political discourse ahead of the next round of electoral positioning.

RJD's opposition playbook and the Bihar crime debate

Tejashwi Yadav served as Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar in two spells — 2015 to 2017 and again 2022 to 2024 — before returning to the opposition benches after the latest alliance realignment. From that perch, attacking the Nitish Kumar government on crime and governance has been the RJD's most consistent and most emotionally resonant line of attack. The party leads the INDIA bloc in the Bihar Legislative Assembly, and keeping law-and-order grievances alive in the public conversation is central to its strategy of presenting itself as the credible challenger to the JD(U)-BJP combine.

Bihar, home to more than 130 million people, has a complex and well-documented history on law and order: the state's 1990s reputation for near-total governance breakdown became the baseline against which every subsequent administration has been measured. Nitish Kumar's 2005 comeback was built almost entirely on a promise to restore that order. That same promise is now the target.

What the government and the assembly floor may say next

The Bihar government has consistently pushed back on opposition crime claims by citing improvements in conviction rates and police modernisation. Whether the administration responds formally — through an official statement, crime-statistics release, or floor debate — will be an early indicator of how seriously the ruling coalition is taking the opposition's renewed offensive. With the next state elections on the horizon, both sides know the narrative on public safety in Bihar will be contested inch by inch.

Tejashwi Yadav's post is less a single salvo than the opening of a season. If the government cannot close the gap between its law-and-order promises and Bihar's lived reality, the 'batolebaaz' tag may well stick.