Tejashwi Yadav’s party warns supporters before counting


Bihar 2020 elections: Tejashwi Yadav had held more than two dozen demonstrations for the Rashtriya Janata Dal

Patna:

The Rashtriya Janata Dal, which most exit polls predicted will win the majority in the recently concluded assembly elections in Bihar, warned its workers and supporters to maintain discipline on count day, whatever it may be. the result of the elections. In a tweet today, the party said that firecrackers or disruptive behavior should not be used and that courtesy should be maintained with rival parties.

“On November 10 the scrutiny will take place. Whatever the result, we must behave well, keep the peace. No worker should use colors, firecrackers, etc. There should be no indiscipline in the emotion of a victory,” read one rough translation of the party’s tweet in hindi.

In a second tweet, the RJD asked its workers to keep in mind that regardless of the results, “at the center of its policy is the elevation of the public and the convenience of the people.”

The party’s cautionary note comes in the wake of the campaign by the ruling Nitish Kumar alliance and the BJP, which has kept the focus on law and order issues during the 15-year tenure of Tejashwi Yadav’s parents. , Lalu Yadav and Rabri Devi.

Lalu Yadav is in jail after being found guilty in a huge corruption case that involved irregularities in the purchase of animal fodder.

Through the NDA campaign, multiple references have been made to the “Jungle Raj”: people were warned not to do so and told to wait for it if the RJD came to power.

Even Prime Minister Narendra Modi had dubbed Tejashwi Yadav, the 31-year-old chief ministerial candidate of the RJD, Congress and the left-wing alliance, as “Jungle Raj ka Yuvraj.”

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Yesterday, most opinion polls predicted that the alliance will win a majority in the state, falling far ahead of the NDA.

A set of opinion polls indicated that the opposition coalition will win 128 of Bihar’s 243 seats and the NDA 99. Chirag Paswan’s Lok Janshakti Party or LJP is likely to win six seats, the mathematics indicated.

The state majority mark is 122.

However, exit polls are often wrong.

RJD spokesman Mrityunjay Tiwari said the party’s own assessment based on ground-level information is that it will win more seats than expected in exit polls. “There is a wave of support for Mahagathbandhan and Tejashwi Yadav. We will win with a two-thirds majority,” the Press Trust of India news agency was quoted as saying.

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