🏗️The Fall of a Bridge, The Fall of a System
Three years. That’s all it took for a ₹5 crore bridge in Bihar to come crashing down.
No earthquake. No storm. No natural disaster.
Just man-made rot — the same disease that has eaten away at this country’s infrastructure, trust, and accountability for decades.
The bridge, inaugurated in 2022 with pomp and political smiles, now lies in ruins. And so does every claim of “good governance” and “development.”
This isn’t just concrete collapsing — it’s the system itself giving way under the weight of corruption.
💰 A ₹5 Crore Monument to Corruption
When public money is spent, there’s an expectation — not of miracles, but of minimum decency. A bridge that lasts at least a decade. A structure that stands longer than an election cycle.
But in bihar, ₹5 crore buys you three years of false promises and quicksand engineering.
It’s a scam repeated in every district — inflated contracts, substandard materials, and pocketed funds wrapped in “development project” press releases.
Bridges collapse, roads vanish in the rain, schools crumble — and yet, every politician smiles in the next ribbon-cutting photo.
This bridge isn’t just a structure. It’s a symbol of a political culture where greed outweighs gravity.
🧱 The Myth of “Clean Image” Politics
Turn on the tv and watch how the media spins it.
Suddenly, nitish kumar becomes a saint. The same old “Mr. Clean” narrative resurfaces.
But if “clean” means bridges collapsing, roads disintegrating, and villages sinking under corruption, then maybe we need to redefine the word.
Every government project is sold as a triumph of governance — until the rain comes, and the cracks appear. Literally.
Yet no minister resigns. No contractor is jailed. No investigation reaches a courtroom.
Because accountability doesn’t exist — only optics do.
🌊 The Taxpayer’s Money — Washed Away
Let’s talk about where your taxes go.
You slog every day. You pay GST on every item, from your morning coffee to your phone bill. You fund the system.
And what do you get in return?
A bridge that collapses in three years.
Your money — the country’s money — is funneled into the same black hole of corruption that keeps certain states fat with funds and thin on results.
While ordinary citizens pay for progress, the political elite cash in on decay.
The drain on national wealth isn’t just economic — it’s moral.
🗳️ The Real Culprits: Voters Who Never Learn
Let’s be brutally honest — politicians don’t exist in a vacuum.
They thrive because we keep voting for them. Again. And again. And again.
No questions asked. No accountability demanded.
We celebrate ribbon cuttings and forget the ruins left behind.
Every time a voter chooses loyalty over logic, caste over competence, and party over progress — another bridge falls, another future collapses.
We’re not just victims. We’re participants.
Democracy dies not with dictators, but with deliberate ignorance.
⚙️ The bihar Pattern: Build Fast, Break Faster
Look closely, and you’ll see a pattern:
Bridges collapse. Reports are filed. Committees are formed.
A few scapegoats are suspended. Then everything continues as usual.
The same contractors get new tenders. The same engineers sign off on the paperwork.
It’s a perfect loop — corruption without consequence.
And the only thing that ever changes in Bihar’s “development” story is the year of the collapse.
💀 CONCLUSION: When Concrete Falls, So Does Credibility
The bridge in bihar didn’t fall because of weak cement.
It fell because of weaker ethics.
It fell because corruption isn’t the exception — it’s the system. Because accountability is a joke, and outrage fades faster than news cycles.
As long as we keep applauding mediocrity, funding incompetence, and electing the same faces that built this broken empire — we’ll keep watching bridges fall, dreams crumble, and leaders smile through the debris.
This isn’t a collapse of infrastructure.
It’s the collapse of conscience.
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