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Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) person Tejashwi Yadav connected Thursday (October 9, 2025) promised that if the INDIA bloc helmed by his enactment comes to powerfulness successful Bihar, it volition "bring an Act" to guarantee that each household successful the State has a subordinate with a authorities job.
Announcing it astatine a property conference, helium said the projected Act volition beryllium brought "within 20 days of enactment of the caller government."
"The NDA [National Democratic Alliance] could not supply jobs to the younker successful 20 years. We volition bring the Act wrong 20 days of coming to power, and implementation volition beryllium ensured successful 20 months," said the erstwhile Deputy Chief Minister.
"I had promised authorities jobs successful the past Assembly polls arsenic well. During my little stint successful power, 5 lakh jobs were provided. You tin ideate what could beryllium imaginable had I got a five-year term," the 35-year-old person said.
Mr. Yadav has repeatedly described the Nitish Kumar authorities arsenic a "copycat," noting that respective populist measures successful caller months appeared to person taken a cue from the RJD leader's earlier canvass promises.
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Vowing not to beryllium outwitted, Mr. Yadav, who is often shown arsenic the astir preferred Chief Ministerial campaigner successful sentiment polls, had earlier said helium would talk much astir his docket for Bihar "only aft polls are announced," and the ruling NDA was near constrained by the exemplary codification of conduct.
Recently, the authorities has provided 125 units of escaped powerfulness per period for consumers, waived introspection fees for candidates, introduced a "domicile quota" successful seats reserved for women, and hiked societal information pensions.
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About a week up of the announcement of polls, the 'Mukhyamantri Mahila Rojgar Yojana' was rolled out, arsenic portion of which ₹10,000 each has been paid to much than 1 crore women of the State done nonstop currency transfer.
The scheme, introduced to promote entrepreneurship among women, has been decried by critics arsenic an effort to "bribe" voters up of elections.
Mr. Yadav, however, refused to instrumentality questions connected the fluid governmental situation, with issues specified arsenic seat-sharing and ceremonial declaration of a Chief Ministerial campaigner hanging fire.
"Today's property league had been called to marque conscionable this 1 large announcement. If determination are questions relating to this, I americium acceptable to answer. For different issues, we volition speech later," said Mr. Yadav.
