Whose jungle raj?

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has decided to return the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) a favour. On Friday, he said jungle raj, which the BJP claimed had gripped Bihar, actually prevailed under the BJP dispensation at the Centre. He accused the Narendra Modi government of diverting people's attention from its failures. He added that the government at the Centre was using "sentimental" issues - such as levelling sedition charges against Jawaharlal Nehru University student leader Kanhaiya Kumar - to take people's attention away from the promises it had made before the 2014 general elections. "The way attacks are being carried out on court premises shows there is complete jungle raj there," he summed up.