Peeved at RJD leader’s arrest over FB post, Tejashwi alleges liquor mafia inside CM house

“I am saying that the liquor mafia is having fun inside Nitish Kumar’s residence. Those seen near the CM also drink. Is there anyone in the Bihar Police to arrest me? Ask these shameless and corrupt robbers of people’s mandate how many mafia have been born inside the CM’s house as a result of the liquor ban,” Tejashwi tweeted in Hindi.

Blaming the liquor ban for “deteriorating law and order”, he later said it was imposed to send the poor to jails and make the police “corrupt and idle”. “I want to know why not a single senior officer has been suspended despite huge recovery of liquor during ban… if this liquor law is so effective, why has its provisions been relaxed,” he said.

JD(U) spokesperson and Bihar’s Information and Public Relations Minister Neeraj Kumar told The Indian Express, “First, such language does not behove a leader of Opposition. Second, Tejashwi must not use pronouns and should rather directly name people for liquor law violations with facts and evidence. There is a toll-free number… where anyone can give information… he must stop making baseless allegations and should take some lessons from Deputy CM Sushil Kumar Modi who had levelled allegations against Tejashwi with facts, forming the basis of IRCTC case against the RJD leader.”