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A time aft the Cabinet enlargement successful Bihar, Leader of Opposition successful Legislative Assembly Tejashwi Yadav connected Friday (May 8, 2026) targeted erstwhile Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Prime Minister Narendra Modi implicit dynasty politics. While addressing the property astatine the enactment bureau successful Patna, Mr. Yadav asserted that Mr. and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), person nary motivation close to talk connected dynasty politics.
Mr. Yadav took a jibe astatine the confederation partners of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), stressing that each are present successful the grip of dynasty politics. He pointed retired that 3 Ministers successful Samrat Choudhary’s Cabinet are sons of 3 erstwhile Chief Ministers of Bihar, and astir 17 sons and daughters of erstwhile politicians are portion of the caller Cabinet.
“A authorities has yet been constituted aft a hold of six months, and wrong these six months, the State has seen the assignment of 2 Chief Ministers and 4 Deputy Chief Ministers. The Cabinet expansion, which took spot yesterday, displayed perfectly nary vision, nor did it bespeak immoderate thought process regarding development,” Mr. Yadav said.
He pointed retired that without contesting immoderate elections oregon holding rank successful immoderate house, Mr. Kumar’s son, Nishant, and Upendra Kushwaha’s son, Deepak Prakash, person reaped the benefits of being “leaders’ sons” and person subsequently been appointed arsenic Ministers. He questioned wherefore determination was nary treatment implicit those individuals who person go Ministers without securing a nationalist mandate.
“We each cognize that Nitish Kumar had antecedently snapped the confederation connected the grounds of opposing dynastic politics. Now the Chief Minister himself is simply a merchandise of dynastic politics. The contiguous furniture has 17 ministers from a governmental background. The furniture includes the sons of 3 erstwhile Chief Ministers: Nitish Kumar, Jitan Ram Manjhi, and Dr. Jagannath Mishra,” Mr. Yadav said.
Targeting PM Modi, helium recalled that during predetermination campaigns, Mr. Modi utilized to notation to him arsenic ‘Shahzade’ (Prince). “Now, the leaders of the BJP and JD(U) indispensable explicate who the existent ‘Prince’ is, “ helium said.
He pointed retired that those who person go Chief Minister, Deputy Chief Minister, and Ministers person precisely worked alongside his father, Lalu Prasad and the RJD. He asserted that the existent Chief Minister hails from “Lalu Ji’s schoolhouse of politics.
He claimed that successful the Cabinet expansion, neither determination equilibrium nor caste equilibrium has been taken into relationship and castes specified arsenic Nai, Amat, Nonia, Chaurasia, Beldar, Dangi, Dhobi, and different akin communities person been denied representation. Mr. Yadav besides charged the State authorities for appointing a lone Muslim person successful the Cabinet.
He asked that the authorities explicate wherefore women were not allocated a 33% quota wrong the Cabinet, and the fewer women who person been appointed arsenic Ministers beryllium their positions solely to dynastic politics.
He powerfully condemned the constabulary resorting to lathicharge to disperse the aspirants of the Teacher Recruitment Examination (TRE) 4.0 demanding the merchandise of the introspection notification from the Bihar Public Service Commission (BPSC) connected Friday (May 8, 2026).
“When students of the TRE-4 examinations were making genuine demands, they were subjected to a baton charge. Now, the demands for jobs and employment raised by the younker volition beryllium suppressed by beating them with sticks,” Mr. Yadav said.
When asked astir the West Bengal results and absorption unity, Mr. Yadav asserted that each the determination parties should beryllium unneurotic to sermon the contented due to the fact that lone the determination parties tin halt the juggernaut of the BJP.
Meanwhile, astir of the Cabinet Ministers who took the oath connected Thursday (May 7, 2026) took complaint of their respective departments, including Mr. Nishant Kumar arsenic Health Minister.
