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RJD moving president Tejashwi Yadav announced that his enactment would "expand its base" beyond Bihar, moving distant from its earlier argumentation of refraining from contesting polls successful different States to debar part of "secular votes".
The erstwhile Bihar Deputy Chief Minister was addressing a relation successful Patna connected Tuesday (February 17, 2026) to people the 38th decease day of Karpoori Thakur, the governmental mentor of his begetter and RJD founding president Lalu Prasad.
"From March, we volition embark connected a thrust to fortify the party. Lalu Prasad had made the RJD a large unit successful the State. We indispensable instrumentality his enactment guardant and aspire to achieving the presumption of a nationalist party," said Mr. Yadav.
"In the days to come, we volition effort to grow our basal not conscionable successful Bihar but besides successful different states, wherever we had truthful acold not been entering the fray to assistance our allies truthful that determination is nary part successful secular votes," helium added.
The RJD is simply a cardinal constituent of the absorption INDIA bloc.
Mr. Yadav besides urged enactment workers to retrieve that "we mislaid the assembly polls successful Bihar not due to the fact that we were weak, but due to the fact that we had fallen connected hard times. Our clip is bound to come".
"Lalu Prasad gave maine a large work past period erstwhile I was made the nationalist moving president of the RJD. With the enactment of you all, I spot nary crushed wherefore we shall not go a unit to reckon with," helium added.
Mr. Yadav, who is presently the person of the absorption successful the Bihar Assembly, besides alleged that Chief Minister Nitish Kumar was "achet" (not successful his senses) and was moving his authorities arsenic a "kathputli" (puppet) of influential bureaucrats and his domineering ally, the BJP.
"I had said that I would support quiescent till this authorities completes 100 days. The deadline volition beryllium implicit successful 4 days. We volition instrumentality the ruling dispensation to task for its nonaccomplishment to fulfil promises made during elections, galore of which were ideas borrowed from us," helium said.
