Overview
- Tejashwi Yadav alleged in a post on X that Bihar remains the poorest state and ranks worst on multiple indicators including migration, unemployment, crime, corruption, literacy, and per capita income.
- He further accused the Nitish Kumar administration of avoiding accountability and relying on bureaucratic control, misuse of public resources, vote-buying, and caste-based politics.
- The BJP responded that performance should be judged against the 1990–2005 period under RJD rule and cited NITI Aayog figures showing multidimensional poverty fell from about 54.4% in 2005–06 to 26.59% in 2022–23.
- Government-cited data highlighted additional gains: roughly 3.77 crore people moving out of poverty, about 10 lakh government jobs plus 10 lakh other employment opportunities, and more than 3,500 industrial units established.
- Officials also pointed to rising literacy (about 47% in 2001 to nearly 74% now), higher per capita income (around ₹8,000 in 2005 to roughly ₹76,000 today), and NCRB figures indicating murders declined from over 3,600 in 2001 to around 2,500 in recent years.