Opinion | Lalu Raj Vs Mamata Regime: Why West Bengal Is More Worrying Than ’90s Bihar |
Opinion | Lalu Raj Vs Mamata Regime: Why West Bengal Is More Worrying Than ’90s Bihar
Mamata's TMC has not just efficiently usurped RJD’s reputation for historic misgovernance, but it has emerged as a bigger threat to India’s wellbeing than Bihar under Lalu ever was
For years, Lalu Prasad Yadav’s term as chief minister of Bihar has been the gold standard of misrule in India. Both ordinary citizens and political analysts readily cited the lore of daily kidnapping, wanton caste violence, murders, rapes, and crippling economic downturn to describe the Bihar of the 1990s and early 2000s under Lalu and his wife Rabri (widely considered a puppet while her husband ruled).
Mamata Banerjee’s TMC has not just efficiently usurped the RJD’s reputation for historic misgovernance, but today it has emerged as a bigger threat to India’s wellbeing than Bihar under Lalu ever was.
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