A new report by India’s top government auditor, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG), has found serious problems in how Bihar used public money in 2023–24. According to the report, the State government spent over ₹70,000 crore without giving any proof of how or where the money was used.
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal (United) on Thursday served a show-cause notice to its MP Girdhari Yadav his inflammatory comments on the current special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the state. The notice alleged that the comments “inadvertently lent credibility to the baseless and politically motivated allegations made by the Opposition.”
Close circuit television footage at a leading hospital in Patna revealed some men walking in gun in hand and leaving after shooting a convicted criminal on parole. This is the latest incident of violence in Bihar where elections are round the corner and is a reminder to the voters that enough is enough.
The Bihar cabinet on Tuesday decided that the existing 35% quota for women in government jobs will now be restricted to only permanent residents of the state, with the decision just months ahead of the crucial assembly polls coming amid a growing demand from jobseekers as well as political opponents for the implementation of a domicile policy in government jobs.
Allies in governing NDA have backed EC’s ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar, describing the exercise as “routine and necessary”.
Bihar seems to have a penchant of being in the news be it owing to JP’s call of total revolution or the Bhagalpur blindings or the fodder scam. The state may.find itself in the news again soon post a new leader whose political party is part of the NDA coalition has thrown his hat in the ring for the chief minister’s post even as the state inches closer to election.
