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Mainstream, Vol 63 No 48 November 29, 2025

Few Questions To those who, during the Bihar election campaign tarred Lalu Prasad Yadav years in Govt as "Jungle Raj" | Suresh Khairnar

Saturday 29 November 2025, by Suresh Khairnar

This photograph is from 1992. Lalu Prasad Yadav had become Chief Minister of Bihar for the first time in 1990 after the elections that followed the 1989 Bhagalpur riots. Soon after he took over, when news arrived of riots breaking out in Sitamarhi during the Durga Puja idol immersion, Lalu Prasad reached Sitamarhi from Patna by helicopter in the darkness of night itself. The moment he landed, he walked through the lanes of Sitamarhi on foot, appealing to people to restore peace. If this was