The Bihar Legislative Council on Monday became a verbal boxing ring with lawmakers of the ruling Grand Alliance pitted against those in the Opposition led by the BJP.

It involved deputy chief minister and RJD chief Lalu Prasad's youngest son, Tejashwi Prasad Yadav, his mother Rabri Devi, education minister and Bihar Pradesh Congress Committee (BPCC) president Ashok Choudhary, Leader of Opposition in the Legislative Council Sushil Kumar Modi and several ministers as well as several legislators.

The fight peaked when labour resource minister Vijay Prakash, who hails from the RJD, said: "The mental condition of the Leader of Opposition (read Sushil) has deteriorated. He should be examined and treated."

It all started when Tejashwi was replying to a query on the proposed greenfield bridge between Kachchi Dargah and Bidupur across the Ganga.

While the Opposition was grilling him over delay in execution of the project, he attacked senior BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi and his associates while they were ministers in the NDA regime led by chief minister Nitish Kumar from 2005 to 2013.

"Didn't you all review departments and works, especially those connected to bridges? No approach roads to bridges were made owing to your wrong policies. We have corrected it and got approach roads constructed for 70 out of 100 new bridges and made them functional," Tejashwi said.

This was like stirring a hornets' nest and the BJP legislators sprang to their feet to protest the sudden deviation, while Sushil chose to hit at the RJD rule in the state between 1990 and 2005. "You are talking about roads and bridges. Have your forgotten how your father and mother, who ruled as chief ministers for 15 years, destroyed this state? People still remember the potholes and ditches on the roads. The credit for the good roads that we see in the state goes to the NDA and Nitish Kumar," Sushil said.

All hell broke loose at Sushil's comments as Rabri, who was quiet till then, entered the ring berating the BJP and the NDA. "The BJP and NDA never allowed us to work in the state. They would impose President's Rule in the state at their whim. I don't know what fight and grudge Sushil has against us that he keeps saying such false things," Rabri said at the top of her voice and continued with her tirade criticising the BJP and the RSS for all the ills in Bihar and the country.

However, Sushil kept throwing more punches by mentioning various scams, including bitumen scam involving the road construction department, which happened during the RJD rule in the state.

With everybody shouting at the top of their voices, Council chairman Awadhesh Narayan Singh ordered all the remarks to be expunged from the records of the House and had to petition the legislators for several minutes to bring the situation to normality.