Return of jungle raj

At a news conference after taking oath in February, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar had stressed his priority was "good governance". "I will work overtime to undo the damage done to susashan," Nitish had said, taking a dig at protege-cum-challenger Jitan Ram Manjhi. His "susashan" promise came back to haunt him after the director of a private school in Nalanda was lynched by a mob on Sunday. Union minister and president of the Lok Janshakti Party, Ram Vilas Paswan, hit out at the state government over the incident. "Does 'sushashan babu' have any answer to what happened in Nalanda?" he asked. The Nalanda incident proved that "jungle raj" had returned to Bihar, he added.