RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav met West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee at the state secretariat on Monday, in a bid to forge unity among secular parties in the upcoming assembly polls. Yadav appealed to the people from Bihar domiciled here to vote for the ruling TMC.
Yadav, during his first visit to Guwahati, said he has already spoken to Congress and will hold talks with the AIUDF later in the day to formalise the alliance.
Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Tejashwi Yadav interrupted Nitish Kumar on a number of occasions during his speech raising various issues.
Tejashwi said the entire family is concerned about his father's health. The RJD leader said that Lalu has been experiencing difficulty in breathing and had undergone CT scan.
Tejashwi had gone to meet the protesting teachers on Wednesday evening. He was told that the teachers were denied permission to stage a sit-in at their planned venue.
Taking a dig at Chief Minister Nitish Kumar following Singhal's statement, Tejashwi tweeted "the Home Minister (Nitish also holds the home portfolio) has floated tenders that are supposed to save people on top posts in the government".
Yadav tweeted (roughly translated from Hindi), "No one is safe under the adulterated Bihar government. MLAs and their families are being massacred in public. The Chief Minister and his deputies cannot go to sleep until they count 100-150 corpses per day in Bihar".
Rupesh Kumar, 40, who was exployed as station mamager with IndiGo, was shot multiple times outside his apartment in Punaichak area on Tuesday evening.
The BJP and JD(U) contested Assembly elections in an alliance under the leadership of Nitish Kumar. The saffron party won more seats than the JD(U) in the Assembly elections held in October-November. The BJP made Nitish as the CM.
Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav on Monday said that assembly elections in Bihar might happen again.
Tejashwi's reference to a criminal case against the CM saw Nitish losing his cool during the debate.
RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav said here on Monday that his party will hit the streets if the NDA doesn't meet its poll promise of providing 19 lakh jobs in the next one month. Tejashwi, reached the Bihar assembly on day one to take oath as an MLA along with his elder brother Tej Pratap Yadav.
The RJD, which was led by Lalu Prasad's younger son Tejashwi in the recent polls, posted a series of tweets taking potshots at Mewalal Chaudhary who has been given the responsibility of education ministry in the government.
Earlier in the day, the RJD said it will boycott the oath-taking ceremony of Nitish Kumar as chief minister, claiming the mandate in the elections was 'against the NDA' which has been changed by a 'fraud'.
Nitish along with 13 ministers will take oath on Monday evening at the Raj Bhawan in Patna. This will be the Nitish's fourth consecutive term as the Chief Minister of Bihar.
RJD's Tejashwi Yadav was on Thursday elected the leader of the Grand Alliance legislature party and promptly hit out at the NDA.
The NDA led by Nitish Kumar won 125 seats, three more than the halfway mark of 122 in the 243-chair Assembly. The grand alliance won 110 seats.
Bihar Election Result: The Congress contested elections in an alliance with the RJD and Left parties. The party fielded 70 candidates but won just 19 seats. The RJD field candidates on 143 seats out of the 243, and won 75 seats. The Left parties won 16 of 29 seats they contested.
Bihar Election Result: The Rashtriya Janata Dal led by Lalu Prasad's son Tejashwi Yadav powered the party to the status of the single largest party with 75 seats. But its alliance partner, Congress appeared to be the weak link and restricted the alliance from gaining majority.
Bihar Election 2020 Full List Winners: The result of Bihar Assembly Election 2020 is out and a stellar performance by the BJP enabled the ruling NDA to attain a simple majority. BJP, which had contested 110 seats, won 72 and was leading in another two while the JD(U) which fought 115, won only 42 and was ahead in another.
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