A blistering catalogue of alleged theft — from mid-day meals to uteruses, from sand to subsidies — landed on Thursday, 20 August 2026, when RJD leader and Leader of the Opposition Tejashwi Yadav posted a sweeping indictment of the Bharatiya Janata Party, naming its offices as the address for what he called over a hundred scams and crimes. In the post, Tejashwi rattled off a pointed inventory in Hindi: 'chanda chor, paper chor, jhaadu chor, toilet chor, dustbin chor, diesel chor, dawai chor, sui-rui chor, garbhashay chor, kalam-basta chor, rashan chor, srijan chor, pul-puliya chor, tower chor, gitti aur mitti chor, balu chor, mid-day meal chor, subsidy chor' — translated: 'fund thief, paper thief, broom thief, toilet thief, dustbin thief, diesel thief, medicine thief, needle-and-cotton thief, uterus thief, pen-and-bag thief, ration thief, Srijan thief, bridge-and-culvert thief, tower thief, gravel-and-soil thief, sand thief, mid-day meal thief, subsidy thief.' He alleged that the masterminds, protectors, and perpetrators of more than 100 scams can be found at BJP offices, and that those offices have become 'the biggest dens of communal incitement, hatred, violence, and illegal activities.'

The scam lexicon: what each allegation points to

Several items on Tejashwi's list carry specific political weight in Bihar. The Srijan scam — a multi-crore fraud involving a non-governmental organisation that allegedly siphoned government funds through connivance with bank officials and bureaucrats — became one of Bihar's most high-profile corruption cases and has been a recurring flashpoint between the RJD and its rivals. References to mid-day meal and ration theft invoke welfare-delivery failures that have repeatedly surfaced in state audit reports. Sand mining (balu) mafia allegations have been a staple of Bihar's political discourse for years, with multiple state and court-monitored probes launched at different points. The reference to 'garbhashay chor' — uterus theft — likely alludes to alleged unnecessary hysterectomies performed in private hospitals under government health schemes, a controversy that has drawn scrutiny in several Indian states.

Opposition playbook, Bihar edition

The post is a textbook deployment of a well-worn but effective opposition tactic: the scam inventory. Indian state-level opposition leaders have long used social media to build cumulative corruption narratives, stacking alleged failures into a single viral post that is difficult for the ruling side to rebut line by line. For Tejashwi Yadav, who led the RJD as part of the Mahagathbandhan grand alliance before returning to the opposition benches, the BJP is both the state's ruling partner and the national government — making it a target on multiple fronts simultaneously. Bihar's political cycle has historically seen such rhetoric sharpen ahead of assembly sessions and electoral cycles, when opposition parties seek to consolidate anti-incumbency sentiment. The BJP had not issued a formal response to the post at the time of publication. Whether the courts, the assembly, or the ballot box becomes the arena where these allegations are tested next — that is the question Bihar's political watchers are now tracking.