A video of young men openly harassing a minor girl on the streets of Samastipur has drawn sharp political fire — and RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav is pointing straight at the top of Bihar's government. In a post on X on September 24, 2026, the Leader of the Opposition called the incident definitive proof that law and order in BJP-ruled Bihar has completely collapsed.

Tejashwi's post, in Hindi, pulled no punches: 'समस्तीपुर में नाबालिग लड़की के साथ सरेआम युवकों द्वारा छेड़खानी प्रत्यक्ष प्रमाण है' — ('The open molestation of a minor girl in Samastipur is direct evidence') that law and order in BJP-ruled Bihar has been buried. He predicted the government's playbook: 'Shameless ministers will shrug this off as a stray incident too.'

The caste-and-crime charge Tejashwi is making

The sharpest edge of Tejashwi's attack is not just the incident itself — it is the allegation of caste-filtered justice. He accused the Chief Minister of honouring criminals based on their caste identity, and warned that the same caste calculus will decide whether the Samastipur case is prosecuted or buried. 'When the state's Chief Minister has a criminal disposition — someone who honours criminals by looking at their caste — such anarchic situations are inevitable,' he wrote.

He then trained his sights on Union Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi, a veteran Bihar leader and former Chief Minister, alleging that Manjhi would find some family connection to the accused to deflect accountability. The closing word — 'Sharmnaak!' (Shameful!) — was designed to land like a verdict.

A recurring fault line in Bihar politics

This is not a new battlefield. RJD has consistently raised law-and-order failures and crimes against women in Bihar assembly sessions since the 2020 state elections, turning each high-profile incident into a referendum on the NDA government's governance record. The ruling alliance, led by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, has long positioned itself on law-and-order credentials — making opposition attacks on that very plank politically potent.

Accusations of caste-based selective enforcement cut especially deep in Bihar, where caste arithmetic shapes every electoral and administrative calculation. By naming both the Chief Minister and a Union Cabinet minister in a single post, Tejashwi is framing the Samastipur case as a systemic indictment, not a local failure.

The Bihar government and police have yet to issue a formal response to the viral incident. Whether the state administration moves swiftly on the case — and who it moves against — will be watched as the real answer to Tejashwi's challenge.