Patna, April 6 -- As Bihar's prohibition law completed a decade, the leader of opposition Tejashwi Yadav on Monday unleashed a scathing attack on the Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, alleging that the prohibition law has failed to meet its objectives and instead fostered corruption and illegal trade.
Tejashwi accused the Nitish government of fostering "institutional corruption" in the name of liquor ban through a nexus between officials and liquor mafias. He said the "institutional corruption" has led to the growth of a massive parallel black economy in the state.
Demanding answers on the policy's abject failure, he alleged it has spawned a Rs 40,000 crore parallel black economy.
Implemented on April 5, 2016, the ban was touted as a social r...