PATNA: Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Tejashwi Yadav on Tuesday gave a brand new, inclusive slogan for his get together as he launched into his 10-day Jan Vishwas Yatra throughout which he would journey throughout 38 districts of Bihar.
RJD chief Tejashwi Yadav addressing a public assembly in Bhar on Tuesday (HT Photo)
“Some people say RJD is MY party. RJD is not MY (Muslim-Yadav) party alone. Its base is much bigger and it belongs to people from A to Z. We have to tell them that our party RJD is not only (MY) party but also BAAP party,” he stated at his first assembly in Muzaffarpur, explaining that the B stands for Bahujan within the acronym, A for agada (ahead), A for aadhi abaadi (girls) and P for the poor.
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Mai (MY) is a colloquial time period utilized in Bihar to deal with one’s mom.
“We are people who unite, not the one who breaks. BJP wants to divide people,” Yadav stated at his rally in Muzaffarpur.
Tejashwi, the youthful son of RJD founder Lalu Prasad Yadav and broadly seen as his political inheritor, has been eager to shed the Muslim-Yadav hyphenation for his get together crafted by his father within the early Nineties to carve out the numerous vote financial institution in his favour.
Muslims represent round 17.7% and Yadavs 14.26 % of the state’s inhabitants of greater than 13 crore. Their help was essential in conserving RJD in energy within the state for 15 years until early 2005.
Yadav’s outreach marketing campaign forward of the Lok Sabha polls comes three weeks after his get together was ousted from energy on January 28, when chief minister Nitish Kumar, in his newest about-turn, snapped ties with RJD and joined ranks with BJP to kind a brand new authorities. Yadav was the deputy CM within the coalition authorities headed by Nitish Kumar from August 2022 until final month.
Tejashwi Yadav additionally attacked the chief minister.
“Nitish Kumar has no vision for the people of the state. He also had no justifiable reason for ditching us and going back to the BJP-led NDA. He thinks he can trample the people’s mandate,” he stated.
“The people of Bihar have been showering their love on RJD, a reason why it has been the single largest party in the assembly for long. I am going to urge them that they support us even more strongly so that we can work for them,” Yadav stated.
The RJD chief additionally took a jibe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s slogan of “Modi ki guarantee” and dared him to ensure that Kumar wouldn’t change sides once more.
Meanwhile, the BJP dismissed RJD’s new slogan.
“They (RJD) turned Bihar into a banana republic and tried to create an atmosphere of fear among people. They took corruption to an all-time high. He (Tejashwi Yadav) had a chance to improve himself, but he didn’t. He should not fool the people with this yatra,” stated deputy CM and BJP chief Vijay Kumar Sinha.
Source: www.hindustantimes.com
