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Tejashwi Yadav remains the face of the party in the election campaigns and is a strong contender for the post of Chief Minister, but Lalu does not seem to bear the risk of handing over the responsibility of the party to anyone else.
The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) announced on Tuesday that its founder Lalu Prasad Yadav has again been elected the national president of the party. Addressing a press conference here, the party’s returning officer Ramchandra Purbey for the organizational elections said that Prasad was the only candidate who had filed his nomination papers a day earlier and he was found to be correct during the investigation. This re -aliest time has taken place at a time when assembly elections are going to be held later this year in Bihar.
Tejashwi Yadav remains the face of the party in the election campaigns and is a strong contender for the post of Chief Minister, but Lalu does not seem to bear the risk of handing over the responsibility of the party to anyone else. Tejashwi is at the forefront of the 2020 assembly elections, led the campaign and appeared prominently on party posters. However, the Grand Alliance missed the victory. This time, the party appears to be adopting dual leadership strategy, allowing Tejashwi to lead on the ground, retaining Lalu’s symbolic right. At the age of 78, Lalu may not be able to actively promote across the state, but his presence as a national president is seen as a stable power in a politically charged environment.
The decision to maintain them also gives the message that the party is not yet formally ready to submit the command, even if the younger generation is already conducting day to day politics. On the filing of nomination for the post of RJD president by Lalu Yadav, Union Minister Nityanand Rai said, “Lalu Yadav has cremated RJD for the 13th time as the national president of the party … He has proved that the party cannot go beyond brother-in-law and is formed for corruption.”
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