Tejaswi's take on jungle raj

The Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) allegation that jungle raj (reign of lawlessness) was prevailing in Bihar under the Grand Alliance government was an attempt to divert potential investment to BJP-ruled states, Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejaswi Yadav said in a Facebook post. The controversial term has often been associated with the state since 1997, when a division bench of the Patna High Court observed that there was no government worth the name in Bihar and that jungle raj prevailed. At that time, Yadav's mother Rabri Devi was the state's chief minister. In the same Facebook post, Yadav said: "Just one incident of Vyapam in Madhya Pradesh is equal to a thousand murders, but the BJP does not call it 'jungle raj'. Witnesses related to the case have been eliminated one after the other and even the chief minister was under the scanner, but they would never call that 'jungle raj', since it is a BJP-ruled state."