Empty Liquor Bottles Found Inside Bihar Assembly Premises, Tejashwi Yadav Demands Nitish Kumar's Resignation

Taking to Twitter, Tejashwi Yadav said Nitish Kumar, who also holds the Home portfolio, doesn't deserve to remain in power for a second more.

New Delhi: RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav demanded the resignation of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar after empty liquor bottles were found on the premises of the state Legislative Assembly. Sale and consumption of liquor are banned in Bihar.

Taking to Twitter, Tejashwi Yadav said Nitish Kumar, who also holds the Home portfolio, doesn't deserve to remain in power for a second more. Yadav said the incident exposed the real picture of prohibition in Bihar.

"Amazing! Liquor bottles recovered inside Bihar assembly premises. Winter session is going on now. Liquor of different brands is available only at a distance of a few steps from the CM's chamber. Amidst tight security, liquor is being available in the assembly in the current session itself, just imagine the rest of Bihar! Embarrassing!" Tejashwi Yadav said in a series of tweets.

The development comes a day after Nitish Kumar and Cabinet members took a renewed pledge in favour of total prohibition of liquor in the state.

"Liquor is everywhere in the (Bihar) assembly premises. It's too much now. Chief Minister cum Home Minister Nitish ji does not have the moral right to be in power even for a second. The Chief Minister was administering the oath (to not consume liquor) to the NDA MLAs in the same premises yesterday. He was scolding the MLAs who were questioning him on the failure of prohibition," Tejashwi Yadav tweeted.

Terming the liquor ban a mere "eyewash", Tejashwi Yadav said, "Nitish Kumar's police are just arresting liquor consumers while the liquor mafias who are the real culprits are roaming scot-free. Only poor villagers are either dying or getting arrested." 

Reacting to the development, Nitish Kumar said in the state Assembly that an investigation would be conducted. "I will tell Chief Secretary and DGP to get an inquiry done. It is not an ordinary thing if the bottles came here. The one who is doing this should not be spared. Strict action should be taken," ANI quoted Nitish Kumar as saying.

"I asked him (Dy CM), he said that bottles of liquor were found somewhere on this campus. This is extremely bad. How can this be tolerated?" Kumar said.

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