Five bullets fired inside an apartment. Anil Yadav, a former ward councillor of the Patna Municipal Corporation, was shot multiple times by gunmen who broke into his residence — and on Thursday, 24 September 2026, RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav walked into the hospital to sit with the family, draw out the medical details, and then turned the visit into a thunderclap of political accountability.

In a post on X, Tejashwi described meeting the injured ex-councillor's relatives to offer reassurance — 'ढांढस बंधाया' (offered comfort) — and consulting doctors on the treatment. He noted that Anil Yadav's wife currently holds the ward councillor seat, lending the incident a sharp institutional dimension: an active civic representative's household targeted in broad political context.

Gunmen inside the apartment — what is known

According to Tejashwi's account, attackers entered Anil Yadav's apartment in Patna and fired multiple rounds, hitting him with five bullets. The RJD leader described the assailants as 'सत्ता संरक्षित अपराधी' — criminals shielded by those in power. The specific circumstances of the attack, the location within the city, and the current condition of the victim beyond hospitalisation have not been independently confirmed at the time of writing.

Tejashwi's 'Gunda Raj' charge and the political arithmetic

Tejashwi used the hospital visit as a launching pad for a broader indictment of the Bihar government, declaring that 'प्रधानमंत्री प्रमाणित गुंडाराज' — 'Prime Minister-certified Gunda Raj (criminal rule)' — has now been established in the state. He alleged that the sitting Chief Minister, whom he accused of facing charges in seven murder cases, has 'criminalised the administrative machinery itself' through his own alleged criminal disposition. NationPress could not verify the murder-charges claim from available records.

The framing is characteristic of the RJD's long-running opposition strategy in Bihar: seize on a specific, named, human incident — not a statistic — then widen the lens to systemic failure. It is a model Tejashwi has deployed consistently since becoming Leader of the Opposition.

Why a municipal councillor's family changes the stakes

The involvement of an elected ward councillor's household adds a layer that resonates beyond routine crime reportage. Ward councillors are the most granular unit of democratic representation in India's urban governance structure — the person a slum-dweller calls about a broken drain, a street light, a birth certificate. An attack on a former councillor, whose wife currently holds the seat, raises direct questions about whether civic representatives and their families operate under credible threat in Patna.

Opposition figures in Bihar have routinely used such incidents to press the ruling dispensation on law-and-order failures, and the pattern of on-ground visits followed by public political statements has become a defining feature of Tejashwi's opposition playbook. The next pressure point: whether the Bihar government issues an official response on the investigation, and whether the incident surfaces in the state legislature.

Five bullets in a Patna apartment. A sitting councillor's husband in a hospital bed. The opposition's loudest voice in Bihar already at the bedside — the government's silence, if it holds, will speak at full volume.