There were liquor mafia, sand mafia. I have been facing difficulties in maintaining law and order," Nitish said. "Now, I every day feel that we took a very correct decision by coming out of the grand alliance," he said.Without taking name of any former alliance partners, Nitish also said he had begun getting feedback during the grand alliance days about the growing menace of sand mafia and liquor mafia in the state. "They (sand Mafia) had been extracting sand much more that their entitlements as per the contract. Nitish had walked out of grand alliance in Bihar on July 26 and formed a new government with the BJP on very next day on July 27.

Source: Times of India November 06, 2017 17:46 UTC