A couple falls on a pothole-riddled road in Bihar — and RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav already knows exactly what comes next. In a blistering post on X on Saturday, 26 September 2026, the Leader of the Opposition in the Bihar Legislative Assembly sketched out a darkly comic ten-minister script he says the NDA government will deploy to dodge accountability, then predicted the Chief Minister would cap it off with a photo-op at his official residence. Translated from Hindi, Tejashwi's post reads in part: 'पाँचवा मंत्री कहेगा कि 2005 से पहले चाँद निकलता था क्या?' ('The fifth minister will ask: did the moon even rise before 2005?') — a jab at the ruling coalition's habit of deflecting every governance failure by pointing to the pre-2005 era when Nitish Kumar first came to power on a reform promise. The satire escalates through minister number six — who, Tejashwi says, will declare that Mars has potholes too, and that the NDA has proudly 'brought Mars to Bihar' — all the way to minister number nine, who will blame the person who filmed the accident for making it public in the first place.

The pothole video that set off the salvo

The post is anchored to a video of a couple falling from a motorcycle on a broken road — one of the recurring viral clips that circulate from rural Bihar with uncomfortable regularity. Tejashwi's satirical countdown — from calling the victims 'illiterate and uncouth' to attributing the accident to 'overpopulation' — is a point-by-point caricature of the deflection strategies Bihar's opposition says the ruling alliance has used for years whenever infrastructure failures go viral. The sharpest barb is reserved for the finale: Tejashwi predicts the 'anarhi mukhyamantri' (incompetent Chief Minister) will summon the couple to the CM residence, pose for photographs, have a news agency record a byte, and get them to say on camera that the road was fine and that they fell due to their own fault — before reassuring everyone that the 'guardian Chief Minister builds roads himself, so all is well.'

The 200-crore commission allegation

Beyond the satire, Tejashwi opens his post with a direct political charge: he accuses a minister who held the Rural Works Department portfolio of pocketing a 200-crore commission through a global tender, and separately alleges that land in Patliputra, Patna, was purchased in the name of a minister's in-law's family. NationPress could not independently verify these specific figures or land-deal claims, and no minister is named by Tejashwi in the post. The allegation fits a well-established pattern in Bihar politics. The Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana, under which thousands of kilometres of rural roads have been funded since the early 2000s, has periodically been the subject of tender-irregularity charges from opposition benches. The Rashtriya Janata Dal has used road quality and procurement allegations as a consistent electoral weapon against the National Democratic Alliance, particularly ahead of assembly cycles.

Why Bihar's roads remain a live political wire

Nitish Kumar's political identity was built, more than almost anything else, on the promise of sushasan — good governance — after what his supporters called the 'jungle raj' years. Roads were the most visible metric. Twenty-one years on, every pothole video that goes viral is a test of that founding promise — and opposition leaders know it. Tejashwi's post lands precisely because it weaponises the gap between that founding claim and the present reality that many rural Bihari commuters experience daily. For the NDA government, the communications challenge is real: viral infrastructure-failure clips travel faster than official data on completed road kilometres, and satire — especially satire this specific — is notoriously difficult to rebut with a press release. If Bihar's roads are still generating content like this in 2026, the next assembly election will be fought, in part, on the same broken asphalt.