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With assembly elections in the politically crucial state of Bihar less than a month away, one of the main accusations from the ruling parties against the opposition is that the Lalu Prasad Yadav-Rabri Devi regime was a period of “jungle raj".

The INDIA bloc has defended against this by stating that the term ‘jungle raj’ was originally used by the Patna High Court regarding a waterlogging issue in the state capital during the monsoon.

The opposition argues that if waterlogging during the monsoon in urban centres is considered ‘jungle raj’, then similar situations exist across various states. Although the term might have been used by the high court to describe a civic crisis, it has been more widely used in public discourse to denote lawlessness during the Lalu-Rab

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