Tejashwi Yadav stopped on way to meet victims of Gopalganj firing incident
News | May 29, 2020 13:49 ISTRashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav was stopped on his way to Goplaganj amid the lockdown on May 29.
Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav was stopped on his way to Goplaganj amid the lockdown on May 29.
COVID-19 testing is "abysmally low" in Bihar, health infrastructure is in shambles and medical supplies procurement "very slow", RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav alleged on Monday and asked the Nitish Kumar-led government to persuade the Centre to provide a special financial package to fight the pandemic.
All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen's (AIMIM) leader Waris Pathan in a controversial Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) speech on February 20 said, "15 crore Muslims can outweigh 100 crore citizens of India."
JDU leader Neeraj Kumar took jibe on Tejashwi Yadav's 'Berozgari Hatao Yatra'. Neeraj Kumar raised questions on the 'high tech bus' that will be used for the yatra.
"I therefore say Nitish Kumar, whom my father had aptly named palturam (turncoat), can also be called Nitish Kumari. And his companion Sushil Kumar Modi, the bearer of the saffron flag, called Sushil Kumari Modi. They cannot take us head on ... they sit in their homes wearing bangles," said Tej Pratap
Kushwaha had launched his "Aamaran Anshan" in protest against the state government's refusal to clear the decks for establishing Kendriya Vidyalayas at Aurangabad and Nawada districts the sanctions for which were given in 2017 when the RLSP chief was the Union minister of state for HRD.
Addressing the state council meeting of the JD (U), Nitish Kumar had said his political detractors who "know nothing, are ignorant of even a, b, c of politics but still get lots of publicity".
The scions gave up their squabble and hit the streets late Wednesday night here when they staged a demonstration that lasted for several hours in protest against the demolition, by municipal authorities, of a doodh mandi (milk market) in the vicinity of the Patna Junction.
Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav on Saturday said the Centre should declare the flood and drought situations in Bihar as national disaster and provide a financial assistance of Rs 10,000 crore to the state. The former Bihar deputy chief minister along with senior RJD leaders Sivanand Tiwari and Raghuvansh Prasad Singh met jailed RJD president Lalu Prasad, at the Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) in Ranchi.
The announcement was made during RJD's national executive meet, which also saw the presence of senior party leaders Jaiprakash Narayan Yadav, former MP and RJD state President Ramchander Purve. RJD leaders, however, made it clear that Yadav will continue as the Leader of Opposition.
Tejashwi Yadav, former Deputy Chief Minister and younger son of RJD chief Lalu Prasad, was not seen in public for a month after the RJD-led Grand Alliance was routed in the Lok Sabha polls in May.
Yadav, who is currently the Leader of Opposition in the Assembly, was not present on the first day of the monsoon session of the Bihar Assembly.
Former Bihar chief minister Rabri Devi on Friday lost her cool after repeated questions from the media on her son Tejashwi Yadav's absence from the monsoon session of the Bihar Assembly.
Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief and former Bihar Chief Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav's elder son Tej Pratap announced the launch of his online venture 'Tej Sena' for change makers on micro-blogging site Twitter.
The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav, has been missing for the past few days even as his state is reeling under a serious health crisis due to the outbreak of Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES).
This is the first time that the RJD failed to win a single seat in Lok Sabha polls in Bihar. In 2014, RJD had won 4 seats despite the Modi wave.
Interestingly, this is the first election the JD-U has contested without a manifesto. However, its National Democratic Alliance (NDA) partners -- the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) -- did release their manifestos.
BJP workers will not escape if they will try to spread violence in Bihar, says Tejashwi Yadav
Replying to questions from Rajat Sharma in the show Aap Ki Adalat, Tejashwi Yadav, who has taken charge of RJD in the absence of his father Lalu Prasad -- presently in jail, said: "Rahul Gandhi deserves to be the prime minister, because he has a long political innings as MP from Amethi. Moreover, he is the president of India's oldest political party."
Attacking Giriraj Singh, who is contesting the Lok Sabha polls from Begusarai in Bihar, Tejashwi Yadav asked if the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader also wanted to remove the green colour from the national flag.
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