Patna, Nov. 2 -- Bharatiya Janata Party Rajya Sabha MP Dharmshila Gupta on Sunday hit back at Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Tejashwi Yadav over his allegation that the ruling BJP-NDA was "protecting criminals" in Bihar. Gupta said that the former deputy chief minister should "reflect on his own conscience" considering the lawlessness that prevailed during the RJD regime.

"A person who himself was surrounded by criminal activities, during whose tenure Lalu and Rabri went to jail in the fodder scam, and the Shilpi murder case occurred - what can he say about this? When the kidnapping industry was active, women were raped on moving trains, and women couldn't go out in public, daughters couldn't attend school, and land was taken from youth in ...