Patna: The RJD on Saturday announced that party leader Tejashwi Yadav will be the party’s chief ministerial candidate in the 2020 Bihar Assembly polls. The announcement was made during the party’s national executive meeting here, in the presence of senior party leaders Jaiprakash Narayan Yadav, former MP and RJD state President Ramchander Purve. The former […]
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Cracks emerge in Grand Alliance in Bihar
Patna: The RJD-led Grand Alliance in Bihar is showing signs of breaking up. The alliance of the RJD, Congress, Hindustani Awami Morcha (HAM), Rashtriya Lok Samta Party (RLSP) and Vikassheel Insaan Party (VIP) was formed in Bihar ahead of the Lok Sabha elections. But after its disastrous showing, the alliance partners have started openly speaking […]
Tejashwi not leader of Grand Alliance, but of RJD: Former Bihar CM Manjhi
Patna: After the Congress, another ally of the RJD-led Grand Alliance, Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM) chief and former Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi on Thursday targeted Bihar opposition leader Tejashwi Yadav, saying the latter is the leader of RJD, not of the Grand Alliance. A week after the RJD-led opposition’s rout in the Lok Sabha […]
Now Congress leader targets Tejashwi for election debacle
Patna: Congress legislator Shakeel Ahmad Khan on Wednesday questioned the leadership ability of RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav and blamed the feud in jailed RJD chief Lalu Prasad’s family for the RJD-led opposition’s rout in the Lok Sabha elections in Bihar. Khan targeted Tejashwi Yadav, younger son of Lalu Prasad, ahead of a review meeting to […]
RJD MLA asks Tejashwi to quit as Bihar opposition leader
Patna: An opposition Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) legislator Maheshwar Yadav on Monday demanded that Bihar opposition leader Tejashwi Yadav should resign on moral grounds after the RJD-led Grand Alliance was routed by the ruling NDA in the Lok Sabha polls. A legislator from the Gaighat assembly seat in Muzaffarpur, Maheshwar Yadav also targeted jailed RJD […]
Lalu Yadav managed RJD poll plan from custody in Ranchi
Ranchi: Serving a 14-year jail term in the fodder scam cases, RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav seems to have managed his party’s poll planning — by cementing its alliances and selecting its candidates — while staying imprisoned in a Ranchi hospital. The former Bihar Chief Minister has been in judicial custody at the paying ward […]
RJD, allies slam journalist for tweet on Rabri Devi
Patna: Leaders of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and its allies in Bihar on Friday slammed a derogatory tweet about RJD chief Lalu Prasad’s wife and former Bihar Chief Minister Rabri Devi by a senior journalist of a Hindi TV news channel. With the Lok Sabha polls underway, Rabri Devi has been attacking and targeting her […]
Lalu remains at the heart of RJD campaign from jail
Patna: This is for the first time that Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) President Lalu Prasad is not taking active part in the general elections. But his party is leaving no stone unturned to keep the RJD patriarch connected to the Lok Sabha polls in some form or another. Ironically, the man who used to spearhead […]
After Sheohar, Lalu’s son to campaign against RJD in Jehanabad
Patna: After fielding Angesh Kumar Singh as the Lalu Rabri Morcha (LRM) candidate in the Sheohar Lok Sabha seat against RJD’s Syed Faisal Ali, RJD chief Lalu Prasad’s elder son Tej Pratap Yadav has decided to field Chandra Prakash Yadav from Jehanbad. Tej Pratap Yadav, a former Bihar Health Minister, is likely to join a […]
RJD contemplates action against Tej Pratap Yadav
Patna: The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) in Bihar is contemplating disciplinary action against party chief Lalu Prasad’s elder son Tej Pratap Yadav for raising a banner of revolt and “anti-party activities”, said party leaders on Sunday. Last month, former Health Minister Tej Pratap launched the Lalu-Rabri Morch (LRM) after alleging that he was being sidelined in […]