"...mocking people of Bihar and democracy": RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav attacks Nitish Kumar over hooch tragedy

New Delhi [India], October 18 : RJD leader and the former Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar Tejashwi Yadav, slammed the Bihar Chief Minister, Nitish Kumar and its Cabinet following the hooch tragedy, which claimed several lives due to the consumption of spurious liquor in the state.
Yadav claimed that despite Kumar's party being the third largest party in the NDA coalition, he did not express any condolences over the tragedy and said that he was laughing at the deaths and mocked the people of Bihar as well as the democracy.
He further attacked the Bihar CM and said that Kumar did not have any communication with the media, public or the victims following such an incident.
"Even after more than 100 people died due to poisonous liquor, the Chief Minister and the Cabinet Minister were laughing loudly in the middle of Patna! The Chief Minister of the third largest party, who did not even express condolences, laughing and making others laugh at so many deaths, is mocking the people of Bihar and democracy. Despite such a huge incident, the CM had no communication with the media, no communication with the public, no communication with the victims," the RJD leader said in a post in X.
Earlier, Yadav attacked Nitish Kumar and wrote another post following the deaths of 33 people in two incidents due to the consumption of spurious liquor and said that the liquor ban was a small example of CM Kumar's institutional corruption.
Taking to X, Yadav wrote that the ideological and political ambiguity of the CM resulted in a big flop of the liquor ban in the state.
"Liquor ban is a small example of Nitish Kumar's institutional corruption. If a liquor ban has been implemented, then it is the government's responsibility to implement it completely but due to the ideological and policy ambiguity of the Chief Minister, the liquor ban is a super flop in Bihar today. Due to the unholy nexus of ruling politicians--police and liquor mafia--a black market of illegal liquor worth more than 30 thousand crores has flourished in Bihar," Yadav said in the post.
Meanwhile, the total death count in the state has now risen to 33, with 28 dead in Siwan and 5 dead in Saran. So far, a total of 79 people have been admitted to the Siwan Sadar Hospital, Basantpur Primary Health Centre. 13 severely ill people have been admitted to PMCH Patna for treatment.
Additionally, the opposition has lambasted the Bihar government claiming that its liquor ban policy has failed.