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In the ongoing fund league of the Bihar Assembly, Leader of Opposition successful the House Tejashwi Yadav connected Thursday (February 5, 2026) portion speaking connected the question of acknowledgment to Governor’s address, slammed the NDA authorities successful Bihar connected respective issues
He accused the State Government of rigging successful State Assembly elections done allurement of wealth to woo women voters, deteriorating instrumentality and bid concern and questioning connected improvement of the State while, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar repeatedly asked Mr. Yadav to sit-down arsenic helium was a bachha (child). Both the leaders yet engaged successful a verbal duel.
The recently formed Jan Suraaj Party moved to the Supreme Court connected the time alleging currency inducements successful precocious held Bihar Assembly elections. The Budget league of Bihar legislature commenced connected February 2 with the Governor Arif Mohammed Khan addressing the associated league of the legislature. The existent league volition extremity connected February 27.
While slamming the NDA authorities successful Bihar nether Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, Tejashwi Yadav charged that it was moving connected “false praise and implicit negligence”. “Had Bihar been a abstracted country, it would person been the poorest successful the world”, alleged Mr. Yadav portion questioning the authorities connected improvement front.
“If Bihar is processing truthful much, would you archer maine conscionable 1 conception wherever Bihar is up of different states …anyone. The per capita income successful Bihar is astatine lowest, and the State is inactive the poorest State of the country”, helium alleged. “Bihar’s improvement remains stagnant comparable to 1961”, added Mr. Yadav portion citing principles implicit powerfulness helium asserted that helium refused to “become a ruler of the State connected the presumption of the BJP”.
While speechmaking retired the caller statistic of transgression and transgression incidents crossed the State, Mr. Yadav further charged, “the BJP has turned ideology into gun-o-cracy”. “The constabulary presumption is silent, the medication is unconscious and the authorities is intoxicated”, blamed Mr. Yadav portion making notation of the alleged intersexual battle and execution of a aesculapian aspirant surviving successful a hostel successful Patna and the incidental has triggered a wide outrage successful the State, pursuing which it was later, handed implicit to the investigating agency, CBI.
While making notation connected the currency inducement to woo voters to triumph the precocious held State Assembly elections, Mr. Yadav further alleged that the “ruling NDA had spent ₹ 40,000 crore to decision the mahagathbandhan (grand alliance) successful the 2025 Assembly elections”. He besides made veiled references to a bid of sops offered by the NDA authorities successful the tally up to the Assembly canvass and charged, “the radical of the State were defeated successful the polls which were won by the powerfulness machinery (Lok Hara, Tantra jita). You radical person reduced loktantra (democracy) into a regularisation of dar tantra (fear and intimidation.)”. “The clip whitethorn beryllium connected your broadside contiguous but our clip excessively volition besides come”, asserted Mr. Yadav who, later, sought support from the Speaker to beryllium down and talk due to the fact that of symptom successful his limb injury. Mr. Yadav was declared arsenic the Chief Ministerial look of the Opposition mahagathbandhan.
Mr. Yadav alleged further that the ruling NDA authorities successful Bihar has done “little successful its 20 years of power”. He besides criticized the fund presented by the NDA authorities successful State legislature connected February 3 and described it a s a “mere repetition of promises made by the erstwhile expansive confederation government”. “Some ponds person started see themselves oceans; we’ll marque them recognize their limits astatine the close time”, Mr. Yadav stated a couplet successful Hindi.
He besides urged Chief Minister Nitish Kumar to request peculiar presumption for Bihar and deed the streets to code State’s contented and get the “support from Opposition”.
With Chief curate Nitish Kumar and Mr. Yadav interjecting clip and again, some the leaders yet were engaged successful crisp verbal duel. “You delight beryllium down. You’re a bachha (child). Now you excessively person a child. I’m from your father’s time. I person a fondness for you. Sit down, beryllium down and perceive to me”, said Nitish Kumar repeatedly and Mr. Yadav sat down flashing a wide grin connected his face.
Later, Mr. Kumar attacked Mr. Yadav and his enactment Rashtriya Janata Dal for doing “something fishy” during erstwhile expansive confederation government. “You’re progressive successful thing fishy and wrongdoing and that is wherefore we near you”. Mr. Kumar said portion asking “what was the concern earlier 2005 (Mr. Kumar took implicit the NDA authorities arsenic Chief Minister successful November 2005)?” and listed improvement works done during his government’s authorities successful health, agriculture, electricity, education, roadworthy construction, women’s societal and economical empowerment, manufacture and different segments.
Meanwhile, the recently formed Jan Suraaj Party founded by erstwhile poll-strategist Prashant Kishor excessively moved to the Supreme Court connected Thursday (February 5) alleging currency inducement to women voters during State Assembly elections held successful November 2025. The JSP called it “misuse of a authorities payment strategy to power voters up of the 2025 Assembly elections”. The enactment was referring to strategy Mukhyamantri Mahila Rojgar Yojna launched by the ruling NDA authorities successful the State nether which ₹ 10,000 was straight transferred to 1 pistillate successful each household with a further committedness of ₹ 2 lakh aft appraisal for their “self-employment”.
Mr. Kishor’s enactment JSP, though, had failed to triumph adjacent a azygous spot successful the Assembly canvass portion losing information deposits successful 99% of the seats it contested.
