A day after he equated the Gaya road rage incident with the Pathankot terror attack and questioned those alleging ‘jungle raj’ in Bihar, Deputy Chief Minister Tejaswi Yadav on Thursday played down his comment, saying he was merely asking people to define ‘jungle raj’. He also termed the Gaya road rage incident “sad and unfortunate” and assured the grieving family of the teenage boy “full justice”.
“People who levelled allegations of jungle raj in Bihar, I had just asked them to define jungle raj. I didn’t mention Pathankot alone but also talked about Vyapam scam of Madhya Pradesh.” Mr. Yadav told reporters in Patna.
On Wednesday, he courted controversy by asking: “Isn’t the raising of Pakistani flags in Kashmir Valley an example of jungle raj? What about terrorist attack on the IAF base at Pathankot, isn’t that jungle raj? In Madhya Pradesh, an officer was killed brutally by sand mafia, in the Vyapam scam, witnesses were killed one after the other; isn’t all this jungle raj?”
