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Many eyebrows were raised connected Tuesday (January 14, 2026) erstwhile Tej Pratap Yadav, the estranged elder lad of RJD president Lalu Prasad, turned up astatine a feast organised present by elder BJP person and Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Vijay Kumar Sinha.
Mr. Yadav, a erstwhile Minister who has floated his ain outfit – Janshakti Janata Dal – pursuing expulsion from the RJD, received a lukewarm invited from Mr. Sinha.
He had met the lawman CM a fewer days agone to widen an invitation for a feast helium volition beryllium hosting connected Wednesday (January 14, 2026) connected the juncture of Makar Sankranti.
Mr. Sinha hosted the feast connected the eve of the festival, which was attended by a big of elder NDA leaders, including Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, chap Deputy CM Samrat Choudhary, JD(U) moving president Sanjay Kumar Jha and Minister and Hindustani Awam Morcha main Santosh Kumar Suman.
When Mr. Yadav, who mislaid his spot successful the precocious held Assembly polls, was asked by journalists whether helium had immoderate plans to articulation the NDA, helium said: “We whitethorn person antithetic governmental ideologies, but we stock the aforesaid taste ethos. As regards different things, you volition get to cognize astir it successful owed course”.
Mr. Sinha replied successful a akin vein, saying “all Biharis basal united, drafting affirmative vigor from the Sanatan culture, which Makar Sankranti is an epitome of”.
Faced with further queries astir the imaginable introduction of Mr. Yadav into the BJP-led coalition, helium said, “As you person already been told, you volition get to cognize erstwhile the clip comes”.
The BJP person did not reply to different question arsenic to whether Mr. Yadav’s younger member Tejashwi, the Leader of Opposition successful the State Assembly, was expected astatine the feast.
