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The 2020 missed-by-a-whisker election behind him, the RJD scion is taking no chances as he goes all-out to woo sections that have so far been cold to the party.
ALL FOR ONE, ONE…: Tejashwi Yadav speaks at the RJD’s ‘Ati-Pichhda Jagao’ rally in Patna, May 3 (Photo: ANI)
ISSUE DATE: May 26, 2025 | UPDATED: May 20, 2025 16:37 IST
It was a sweltering Saturday in Patna on May 3, but the heat wasn’t just from the rising mercury in the summer. At the Miller High School Ground in the centre of the city, Tejashwi Yadav was whipping up some serious passion of his own. The Rashtriya Janata Dal leader was addressing a rally—the ‘Ati-Pichhda Jagao, Tejashwi Sarkar Banao (Wake Up the EBCs, Elect a Tejashwi government)’ rally organised by his party’s EBC (Extremely Backward Classes) cell. “No EBC community has prospered, while Nitish has flourished,” Tejashwi thundered, mounting a salvo against his once grand ally—Janata Dal (United) supremo and Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar. He promised them jobs and safety; freedom from crimes and criminals too. “Jo apraadh karega, gareebon ka shoshan karega, apamanit karega, usko main jail bhijwaunga (Whoever commits a crime, exploits or insults the poor, I will send them to jail),” he vowed, positioning himself in just that single sentence as a bulwark against injustice as well as indignity.
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