PATNA/NEW DELHI: RJD patriarch Lalu Prasad’s daughter Rohini Acharya’s outburst at her brother Tejashwi Yadav and his close associates for “abusing” and “throwing” her out of home is snowballing into a full-blown family feud and hints at increasing internal rumblings over the decisions of the party’s anointed heir after its bid for office unravelled spectacularly […]
NEW DELHI: Bihar’s 2025 election results threw up a story full of surprises. Tejashwi Yadav‘s RJD turned out to be the party with highest vote share in the state, yet it ended up with one of its lowest seat tallies ever. On the other hand, the NDA kept the power with landslide victory, clinching over […]
Rohini Acharya (PTI photo) NEW DELHI: Lalu Prasad Yadav‘s daughter, Rohini Acharya, who announced her separation from both her family and the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) on Saturday, has now levelled fresh and explosive allegations against her brother and party leader Tejashwi Yadav. Just a day after declaring she was distancing herself, Rohini accused Tejashwi […]
File photo of Tejashwi Yadav NEW DELHI: RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav, the Mahagathbandhan’s chief ministerial face, is locked in a close contest in his family bastion, Raghopur. Early trends from the Election Commission of India show a narrow fight, with Tejashwi polling 23,531 votes, slightly ahead of BJP’s Satish Kumar Yadav, who has secured 23,312 […]
NEW DELHI: In Bihar’s charged election season, everyone wants to be a ‘Jan Nayak’.When Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the NDA’s campaign earlier this month by visiting Karpoori Gram, the native village of socialist icon Karpoori Thakur, and paying floral tribute at his memorial, it was more than a symbolic gesture. It was the first […]
NEW DELHI: Poll strategist-turned-politician and Jan Suraaj chief Prashant Kishor on Monday asserted that the main electoral contest in Bihar will be between the NDA and his party, Jan Suraaj.Kishor claimed that the Tejashwi Yadav-led Mahagathbandhan will be pushed to the margins, finishing a distant third. Speaking to ANI, he said, “We are visiting every […]
NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday mocked the Mahagathbandhan, claiming Rahul Gandhi and Congress were robbed of credit after a press conference poster featured only RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav. BJP spokesperson Shehzaad Poonawala posted on X said, “Joint PC? But only one picture…. Rahul Gandhi & Congress ka ‘samman chori’ ….. Showed Congress […]
PATNA: RJD scion Tejashwi Yadav’s long wait to be officially declared INDIA bloc’s CM face in Bihar looked set to end after Congress’s designated troubleshooter, Ashok Gehlot, and the party’s state in-charge Krishna Allavaru met him and his father Lalu Prasad in Patna Wednesday to break a stalemate that has dragged into the business end […]
NEW DELHI: RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav once again questioned chief minister Nitish Kumar’s health and fitness to continue leading the state, sharing a video of him from a recent rally.Posting the clip on X, Tejashwi wrote, “If the chief minister is healthy, then why is he acting like this while reading a written speech?”The footage […]
Prashant Kishor (PTI file photo) NEW DELHI: ‘I will not contest Bihar assembly polls,’ Prashant Kishor has declared, ahead of the high-octane elections in the state. The Jan Suraaj founder said the decision was taken by his fledgling political startup for the “greater good.”The poll strategist-turned-politician confirmed this in an exclusive interview with PTI.Speculation had […]
