Only two years later, in 2017, a shocking news expose in the form of audio tapes revealed that Lalu Yadav was following orders from his trusted decadal aide, the notorious mafia don-turned-politician Mohammad Shahabuddin. Shahabuddin died in 2021, but his tragic legacy lives on. It is a deplorable investigation into the theory and practice of political criminalisation.
Instead of despairing and being appalled at how Lalu’s brand of politics razed Bihar on a daily basis, the aforementioned AIM complex actually celebrated it as some sort of a “victory of the oppressed classes” while arguing for a classless society in the same breath.
Bihar was the poster state for that decade of all-out horror, and Lalu was its poster boy. In practice, his arduous path to power and subsequent “success” was paved by the legacy AIM complex – academia, intelligentsia, and media. Following the 2015 Assembly elections, the nation witnessed a cheerleading parade of prominent English media journalists openly celebrating Lalu Yadav’s impressive comeback, despite the fact that he was not even a pale shadow of his former glory.
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