Bihar polls: NHRC issues notice to election officials over RJD’s viral election song with minors, promoting caste-based hatred

Acting connected a ailment alleging that a viral predetermination opus from Samastipur, supported and promoted by the workers of Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), features children and spreads caste-based hatred, National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) connected Monday (November 10, 2025) issued notices to the Election Commission successful Bihar.

The announcement was sent to the Chief Election Commissioner, the Chief Electoral Officer of Bihar, and the territory constabulary and administrative authorities successful Samastipur from the seat of NHRC Member Priyank Kanoongo, who asked the acrophobic officials to inquire into the substance and instrumentality urgent steps to forestall the exploitation of minors by RJD workers oregon supporters.

The announcement further directed the authorities to guarantee the extortion of kid rights nether the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015. They person been asked to supply counselling to the children featured successful the video, arsenic good arsenic to their parents oregon guardians, if required.

Action Taken Report sought

An Action Taken Report (ATR) has been sought by the NHRC wrong 2 weeks for its perusal. According to the complaint, the connection and presumption of the opus are “provocative, divisive, and aimed astatine deepening caste-based animosity successful society”. The complainant alleged that specified actions bespeak the unsafe power of RJD’s caste-based ideology, which could harm the motivation and intelligence improvement of children and undermine antiauthoritarian and law values.

The complainant emphasised that utilizing minors successful specified propaganda violates the provisions of the Juvenile Justice Act, and Articles 14, 15, 19(1)(a) and 21 of the Constitution. It further requested for an contiguous and autarkic investigation, accountability of those progressive successful the video’s instauration and dissemination, and strict ineligible enactment and contiguous measures to forestall immoderate governmental party, particularly the RJD, from involving minors successful caste-based oregon hate-driven propaganda successful the future.