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A time aft the completion of 10 years of Prohibition Policy successful Bihar, the Leader of Opposition Tejashwi Yadav connected Monday (April 6, 2026) criticised the State government, calling it “Nitish Kumar’s biggest organization corruption”.
He alleged that an amerciable parallel liquor system worthy astir ₹40,000 crore has emerged nether the policy. He besides alleged that determination is an confederation betwixt the authorities and the liquor mafia, owed to which the instrumentality has failed to execute its purpose.
“Prohibition has proven to beryllium Nitish Kumar’s biggest organization corruption. As a result, Bihar has seen the emergence of an amerciable parallel system worthy ₹ 40,000 crore,”Mr. Yadav said successful a societal media station connected X.
He pointed retired that the Home and Excise Department, liable for overseeing the implementation of the prohibition law, has mostly remained with Mr. Kumar.
Quoting the authorities data, Mr. Yadav said, “After prohibition was enforced, Bihar has registered 11 lakh cases and arrested implicit 16 lakh people. So far, much than 5 crore litres of liquor person been seized. In the past 5 years, implicit 2 crore litres of liquor person been confiscated—that’s an mean of much than 11,000 litres per day.”
He raised concerns that, beyond amerciable liquor, the nonaccomplishment of this instrumentality has led to an summation successful the commercialized of adust substances and different types of narcotics successful Bihar. He claimed that youths are consuming ganja, brownish sugar, and intoxicating drugs.
He asked the authorities to explicate how, when, why, and with whose assistance crores of litres of liquor are entering Bihar’s borders. “No 1 is dropping it disconnected by parachute, aft all? Instead of seizures, the authorities should publicise depletion figures too,”Mr. Yadav said.
He asked the State authorities to besides amusement the fig of liquor depletion successful Bihar on with seizures.
“According to Bihar Police’s ain data, successful 2026, an mean of 3.7 lakh litres of amerciable liquor was seized per month, meaning 12,356 litres per day. However, according to crushed realities, regular liquor depletion successful Bihar exceeds 10 to 70 lakh litres.
According to the Bihar government, successful 2026 there’s been an 18% spike successful seizures,”Mr. Yadav said.
He asserted that successful 2005, determination were astir 3,000 liquor shops crossed the State, but nether the enactment of Nitish Kumar, the fig accrued to 6,000 by 2015. He added that astir of these shops were opened by Mr. Kumar successful agrarian areas and panchayats truthful that liquor could scope each home.
Taking a excavation astatine the State government, Mr. Yadav said that present Bihar authorities is pretending to beryllium reformers successful the sanction of prohibition, but the world is that successful its name, they person promoted organization corruption, making the bureaucracy unchecked, corrupt, complacent, and tyrannical.
“In Bihar, the prohibition instrumentality has go a joke. Under the screen of this law, lone the mediocre are being targeted. Of the astir 16 lakh oregon much arrested nether the prohibition law, the immense bulk are poor, Dalit, backward, and highly backward people people,”Mr. Yadav said.
He asked wherefore nary enactment has been taken against immoderate SP, DSP, oregon elder serviceman successful immoderate district. In Bihar, implicit 350 radical person died owed to the depletion of spurious liquor ever since the instrumentality has been implemented. More recently, 9 radical person died successful a hooch calamity successful Bihar’s East Champaran territory connected April 5, 2026.
