Patna, Jan. 15 (PTI): Disgruntled BJP leader Shatrughan Sinha today dismissed his party's allegation of the return of jungle raj in Bihar.

Asked about BJP and its allies' jungle raj barb at the ruling coalition, the Patna Sahib MP and former actor replied that it was "no way to judge performance of a government in such a short period of time".

"Even the honeymoon period of the new government in Bihar is not yet over," Sinha said about the JDU-RJD-Congress alliance government, which is less than two months old.

"What is happening in Delhi or for that matter, Maharashtra (where the BJP-Shiv Sena coalition government is in power)," asked Sinha, who had kept himself off from recent Bihar election campaign to protest "conspiracy" of a few state leaders against him. "Negative politics never work. I do not appreciate practice of negative politics," Sinha said.

Earlier, senior BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi and others had cited the Darbhanga murder of two engineers and a few other cases of crime in Vaishali and elsewhere had raised the slogan of jungle raj II.

Union minister and LJP president Ram Vilas Paswan had also joined in the attack over the law and order situation in Bihar.

Hindustani Awam Morcha Secular chief Jitan Ram Manjhi has even threatened to launch an agitation against the alleged skyrocketing crime graph.

Shatrughan, whose comments left the BJP embarrassed on many occasions during the Bihar polls, regretted that "a serious introspection of the defeat has not yet been made".