Overview
- Rahul Gandhi on Sunday publicly criticised the BJP‑led government for failing to stop recurring floods and demanded a permanent solution instead of yearly relief.
- The Bihar disaster management department says roughly 49.67 lakh people in 15 districts were affected by the latest floods and hundreds of villages were submerged.
- State relief has included a Rs 579 crore transfer to 8.27 lakh eligible families, and the Indian Air Force dropped more than 28 tonnes of food in hard‑to‑reach Saran areas where roads were cut off.
- Officials attributed the surge to heavy regional rainfall that sharply raised the Ganga, Gandak and Sone rivers, and the deputy chief minister cited NASA satellite data showing record river levels.
- Relief operations face scrutiny after a death reported during an airdrop is under investigation and local reports in Saran say bodies have been recovered and people remain missing, keeping pressure on the state and centre to show concrete flood‑management steps.