Patna: Nitish Kumar continued his battle with the RJD on Twitter, only to draw a risposte from Tejashwi Yadav, who asked why the chief minister does not tweet about BJP chief Amit Shah's son Jay Shah.

" Ghotalon ko ujagar karna aur ghotalebajon ke khilaf kanooni karwaiyee karna hi ghotala hai (Unearthing scams and taking legal action against scamsters is a scandal)," Nitish tweeted on Friday, his fourth tweet in as many days.

"Why doesn't the chief minister tweet about Jay Shah (Amit Shah's son. This is a government of scams," former deputy chief minister Tejashwi said, promising to bring out a report on scams under the Nitish regime.

"The chief minister has no moral authority to speak on scams. His own people are involved," RJD MLA Bhai Birendra said.

Nitish's tweets have actually delighted the RJD camp. "Nitish knows that his clean image is under threat and the unravelling of scam after scam is affecting his image. It shows that he has blinked," said another RJD MLA pointing out how Nitish had walked out of the Grand Alliance on the issue of corruption.

The NDA would definitely like to forget the Assembly's winter session, which ended on Friday. There was a ruckus every day, right from day one, over unravelling of one scam or the other. First it was the illegal withdrawal of funds from what had been set aside for the chief minister's seven resolves in Nawada. Next came the paddy scam in which the government admitted it still has to recover Rs 1,200 crore from those involved. The RJD kept reminding the government of the Srijan scam, toilet scam, embankment scam and Dalit student scholarship scam.

Many of the scams date back to the time when the RJD was yet to join hands with the Nitish government in 2015. The foodgrain procurement scam surfaced before 2015.

"But whenever a scam breaks out, it is the government of the day that has to bear the brunt of public anger. There is a growing perception that corruption is on the rise," said a JDU leader.

Nitish's "zero tolerance" for graft was one of the highlights of his first tenure. But now scandals have marred the government image. "The only respite is those charging us of graft are themselves facing graft charges," said a BJP minister.