RJD declares Tejashwi as its CM face for next Bihar polls to be held in 2020

November 21, 2017 20:02

The Rashtriya Janata Dal today declared Lalu Prasad's son and former Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav as its chief ministerial candidate for the next assembly election in the state.

A resolution on this was adopted at the party's national council-cum-open session meet in Patna which was attended by the party's top leaders.

RJD supremo Lalu Prasad was formally declared as having been elected, unopposed, as the party's national president for the 10th consecutive term at the meet.

Senior party leader Jagdanand Singh read out the resolution that the party will fight the next Bihar assembly election under the leadership of Yadav, who would also head the government in the event of the RJD winning the poll.

The next election to the 243-member Bihar legislative assembly is scheduled for 2020.

Speculations have been rife about Tejashwi Yadav, Prasad's younger son, being declared the party's face for the next state polls.

A few days ago, Prasad stated that Tejashwi Yadav was "able" and "mature" and that there was nothing wrong if people were talking about him as the party's chief ministerial candidate.

Tejaswi Yadav is at present the leader of opposition in the assembly.

He served as the deputy chief minister in the grand alliance government of the RJD, the JD-U and the Congress.

The grand alliance collapsed in July this year after the JD-U deserted it and joined hands with the BJP to form the government. -- PTI

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