Overview

• RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav posted on X that the Modi-Nitish BJP government is helpless as tax-protected criminals run rampant across Bihar.
• In Gaya, unidentified motorcycle-borne assailants fired three rounds at Dr Tapeshwar Prasad, critically wounding the retired health official.
• Five gunmen stormed Patna’s Paras Hospital and executed a parole inmate inside the ICU in a brazen daylight attack.
• Union Minister Chirag Paswan described the violence as “worrying” and urged prompt, firm steps to restore law and order.
• Security failures have become a focal point ahead of the assembly polls, prompting renewed claims that Bihar is reverting to a ‘Jungle Raj.’