Bihar Elections: Will push Tejashwi Yadav to third position in Raghopur: Prashant Kishore

Patna, October 16 (IANS). Jan Suraj founder Prashant Kishore claimed on Thursday that he will push RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav to the third position in this assembly election from Raghopur. Regarding the ongoing tussle over seats in the Grand Alliance, he said that the Grand Alliance should first clarify whether BNP’s Mukesh Sahni is with them or not. Without making any official announcement that he is contesting on even a single seat, he claimed to be the Deputy CM. The basic thing is that this time the Grand Alliance openly sold tickets worth crores of rupees. In many places two parties of the Grand Alliance gave candidates. Terming his decision not to contest from Raghopur as the party’s decision, Prashant Kishore said that the party said it would help the remaining candidates from Jan Suraj. He also said that Tejashwi Yadav and his entire family together cannot scare us. You will see, we will push him to third place in Raghopur. Let us tell you that former Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav has once again contested the elections from Raghopur. Earlier, former MP and four-time MLA from Jokihat, Araria, Sarfaraz Alam Jan Suraj joined the party. Along with party leader Prashant Kishore, national president Uday Singh and state president Manoj Bharti welcomed him to the party. Sarfaraz Alam is the son of former Union minister and prominent Muslim face of Seemanchal politics, late Taslimuddin. For the first time in 1996, he became MLA and Minister in the Bihar Government by winning the by-election from Jokihat on RJD ticket. After this he was also MLA in the years 2000, 2010 and 2015. After the death of his MP father Taslimuddin, he also became an MP by winning the parliamentary by-election held in 2018. His brother Shahnawaz Alam is currently RJD MLA from Jokihat Assembly. –IANS MNP/DKP Share this story Tags