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A time earlier the nationalist enforcement gathering of the party, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) MLA Bhai Virendra connected Saturday (January 24, 2026) sparked a enactment by questioning the enactment enactment implicit summons organisation successful the precocious concluded Bihar Assembly election.
In a speech, a video of which has gone viral connected societal media, Mr. Virendra said “such results” were inevitable if tickets were distributed to “outsiders” based connected “other criteria”, portion ignoring “deserving and hard-working” enactment workers.
The fig of seats the RJD won fell from 75 successful 2020 Assembly predetermination to 25 successful the 2025 Assembly election.
Addressing a meeting, Mr. Virendra asked wherefore Vijay Mandal, the sitting MLA, had been denied a summons from the Dinara Assembly constituency.
“If summons was fixed to lone to Yadav [community], what was incorrect with Vijay Mandal-ji. We some became MLAs together. What was Vijay Mandal-ji’s fault? He should not person been denied the ticket. Ticket was fixed to an outsider connected the proposal of others,” Mr. Virendra said.
The RJD fielded Rajesh Yadav, the party’s younker president, and known to beryllium a dedicated enactment worker, from Dinara.
The enactment fielded 143 candidates, the highest successful the Indian National Developmental, Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) bloc, but notched up its worst show successful caller elections, with the objection of the 2010 Assembly election, erstwhile it had won 22 seats. In the past decade, the RJD had emerged arsenic Bihar’s azygous largest party, winning 75 seats successful 2020, and 80 seats successful the 2015 Assembly election.
While helium did not sanction anyone, Mr. Virendra was scathing successful his criticism. “There are immoderate leaders successful the enactment who assertion to beryllium socialist leaders but that’s lone for name’s sake. They assertion to tally 3 districts, and they are the leaders who assertion to cultivate Kaimur and Rohtas (districts), and present Buxar (nagar parishad). If specified radical volition stay successful the party, and tickets volition beryllium distributed connected their advice, past we are bound to look specified results,” helium said.
Mr. Virendra was indirectly criticising Sudhakar Singh, lad of erstwhile RJD State president Jagdanand Singh, who hails from Kaimur district, and is presently the MP from the Buxar Lok Sabha seat.
Prior to the 2025 Assembly predetermination successful November, Mr. Sudhakar’s proposal was considered important successful the enactment of candidates successful the Shahabad region, a stronghold of Mr. Jagdanand’s family.
Mr. Sudhakhar’s younger brother, Ajit Kumar, was nominated to contention from the Ramgarh Assembly spot successful the 2025 Assembly election, but helium lost. The Ramgarh spot successful Kaimur territory adjoining Rohtas was represented by Mr. Sudhakar earlier helium became an MP successful 2024.
Sources successful the enactment said that though proposal was invited from galore leaders, the last determination connected the organisation of tickets was taken by Leader of the Opposition successful the State Assembly, Tejashwi Yadav. He is known to beryllium taking each the decisions successful the RJD, volition apt beryllium named the party’s caller nationalist president connected Sunday (January 25, 2026).
Mr. Virendra told journalists that helium stood by each connection helium had said connected the issue.
“One idiosyncratic was liable for 3 districts and each 3 districts were sold. Who sold the tickets successful these 3 districts is simply a substance for investigation. In Buxar district, we lone won 1 seat. Who should beryllium held responsible? Whatever I say, I accidental the information and I instrumentality to my words,” Mr. Virendra told media persons astatine the enactment office.
Mr. Tejashwi Yadav was besides contiguous astatine the enactment bureau to observe the commencement day of the precocious Karpoori Thakur, erstwhile Chief Minister of Bihar, who hailed from an Extremely Backward Classes (EBC) assemblage and championed the origin of marginalised backward communities.
Earlier, Rohini Acharya, elder sister of Mr. Tejashwi Yadav, had questioned the party’s debacle successful the Assembly election.
