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Bihar Assembly Monsoon Session begins on Monday amid political sparring

Patna, July 19 (UNI)
The five-day Monsoon Session of the Bihar Legislative Assembly, beginning on Monday, is expected to be stormy. The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), Congress, and Left parties are preparing to corner the NDA government led by Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary over recent criminal incidents and the state’s law-and-order situation.
The Opposition is likely to seek answers from the government over the Bharat Bhushan Tiwari encounter, Bunty Yadav kidnapping-murder case and other recent incidents.
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