The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), despite being a minor political force in Bihar so far, is currently busy mobilising its local units across the state in preparation for the Assembly polls while looking forward to an alliance with the Congress.

RJD supremo Lalu Prasad on Saturday accused his arch rival chief minister Nitish Kumar and the Congress of hatching a “larger conspiracy” to weaken the cause of social justice in Bihar and said people had understood their game plan and would defeat them in the Assembly polls.

In an incident that sharpens the irony of food grains rotting in FCI godowns while millions of people starve, a poor, old woman in Bihar was assaulted for picking up a few grains of wheat scattered around the wheels of a goods train at a railway station on Thursday.

Suspended Bihar Janata Dal (United) MLA Sunil Pandey is set to be released from jail after the Patna high court acquitted him in a case of abduction of a renowned doctor. Pandey was sentenced to life term in the case two years ago.

A JD(U) leader and husband of village mukhiya in Bihar, whose brutal assault on a youth in full public view mocked at chief minister Nitish Kumar’s robust claims of establishing the rule of law in the state, was on Tuesday arrested and sent to jail following Mr Kumar’s orders.

With the alleged Rs 11,412-crore “treasury scam” badly denting the Nitish Kumar government’s image in poll-bound Bihar, hundreds of officials from several government departments are currently engaged in preparing thick sheaves of DC bills to be submitted at the AG office so as to erase the taints sullying the government.

Even as Bihar’s ruling JD(U) is gearing up its district-level units in the state in preparation for the imminent Assembly polls, incidents of rowdy acts and violence at its workers’ meetings in presence of senior leaders over three consecutive days have brought acute embarrassments to the party.

Unidentified gunmen fired at the vehicle of a ruling BJP MLA in Bihar while he was returning after a tour of his constituency on Saturday evening. The MLA, Prem Ranjan Patel, escaped unhurt.

With the CAG reports repeatedly highlighting massive financial mismanagement by the Nitish Kumar-led JD(U)-BJP government in Bihar and calls for a CBI probe gaining momentum, comparisons are being drawn between these virtual scams and the Rs 1,000-crore fodder scam in the mid-1990s.

Maintaining a politically correct distance from the RJD while supporting that party’s aggressive stand in the wake of the alleged “treasury scam,” Bihar’s Congress MLAs on Friday met governor Devanand Konwar and demanded the dismissal of the Nitish Kumar-led NDA government.