On July 26, Union minister Chirag Paswan was in Gaya to address a public gathering when he lashed out at the Nitish Kumar-led NDA regime in Bihar. “I am sorry I have to support this government,” he told the media when asked about the ambulance rape incident that had rocked the town—and made national headlines—two days earlier. “Murders, kidnappings, rape… yet the state machinery prostrates itself before criminals.” Though he refrained from naming the chief minister, there was no mistaking who his salvo was aimed at—the home department works under Nitish.
