‘Criminals’ dominate Bihar house

More than half of the members of the 243-member Assembly dominate the house. Among the legislators with criminal antecedents are those from the ruling combination of the RJD and the JD(U). While the RJD which emerged as the single-largest party in the state Assembly has 49 legislators with criminal charges against them, the JD(U), led by Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar who always stress on clean politics and good governance, has 37 MLAs with cases pending against them. According to ADR report, the BJP during the Assembly election had fielded 157 candidates out of which 95 candidates had criminal cases pending against them. According to observers and political analysts around 58 percent have criminal antecedents and “the presence of so many legislators in the state Assembly shows that Nitish Kumar’s commitment to pursue only clean politics and remove the fear of criminals from the heart of people was only a hoax”.

It is clear that criminals and mafia continue to run political system over it on which the writ of the chief minister does not run. In view of this Bihar would continue to bleed.