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Union curate and Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) main Chirag Paswan connected Tuesday (October 28, 2025) said the naming of RJD person Tejashwi Yadav arsenic the main ministerial candidate of the INDIA bloc has revived memories of "jungle raj" successful Bihar.
Mr. Paswan said the determination has taken distant adjacent "a sliver of a chance" the absorption confederation had successful the upcoming Bihar assembly elections.
The Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) person made the remark portion responding to questions from journalists astir Mr. Yadav's jibe astatine the NDA's alleged inability to sanction its ain CM candidate.
The Hajipur MP said, "How galore times does it request to beryllium said that Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is the NDA's face. When Union Home Minister Amit Shah simply spoke astir the owed procedure, the absorption is twisting that retired of context".
Mr. Shah, the BJP's main strategist, was precocious asked whether helium could affirm that Kumar, who heads the JD(U), volition proceed arsenic the main minister, contempt age-related wellness issues, if the NDA won the polls.
Mr. Shah had replied, "Who americium I to accidental so? Yes, we are contesting the polls nether Nitish Kumar's leadership. After the elections, who would beryllium the CM is simply a determination that NDA legislators shall jointly take".
This has led to speculations successful a conception of the media that the BJP, which has not headed a authorities successful Bihar truthful far, was having 2nd thoughts connected the JD(U) supremo.
Mr. Paswan trained his guns astatine Mr. Yadav, saying "By mistake, and nether unit from his party, helium has been named arsenic CM campaigner and helium is behaving arsenic if helium is already the CM. The crushed wherefore Congress person Rahul Gandhi had been refraining from doing truthful was that helium is alert that arsenic soon arsenic the RJD person is projected, radical volition commencement recalling the jungle raj and recoil successful fear".
"So, by naming him (Yadav) the CM, the INDIA bloc has fixed up the fractional per cent accidental it mightiness person had. And what bash they anticipation to summation by promising Mukesh Sahni the Deputy CM's post? The mode helium has been coerced into submission by the RJD is not mislaid connected his Nishad community", alleged Paswan.
He besides chuckled astatine the connection of RJD wide caput Abdul Bari Siddiqui that Yadav has a agelong mode to spell earlier helium could beryllium called "Jan Nayak", an epithet associated with Bharat Ratna Karpoori Thakur.
Mr. Paswan said, "To telephone oneself a leader of the radical betrays utter deficiency of humility. No wonder, it has triggered resentment successful his ain party. He is yet to marque a people for himself. The bequest that helium carries (of begetter and RJD president Lalu Prasad) is each astir jungle raj".
