Team News Riveting
New Delhi, August 12
The newly inducted Bihar Deputy Chief Minister, Tejashwi Yadav met Congress president Sonia Gandhi and other Opposition leaders and reportedly briefed about the political developments in Bihar.
Tejashwi is also the head of Mahagathbandhan (grand alliance) of which Congress and other political parties are allies. It has extended support to Nitish Kumar’s RJD after it severed ties with the BJP that collapsed the NDA government in Bihar.
Nitish formed the government with the support of grand alliance on August 10 with Yadav as his deputy. The RJD leader served as deputy chief minister of Bihar from 2015 to 2017.
Yadav’s visit to Delhi also added significance as Rashtriya Janata Dal supremo Lalu Prasad is in the national capital and has to put his stamp on the names of ministers to be sworn in later. The cabinet, which at present comprises only Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Yadav as his deputy, is likely to be expanded early next week.
Yadav also met CPI(M) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury and CPI General Secretary D Raja. The CPI and CPM are also part of the grand alliance in Bihar.
After the meeting, Tejashwi said in a tweet that he met the two Left leaders and had a positive discussion on the current social, economic and political scenario prevailing in the country and Bihar. “Bihar, the land which gave birth to democracy, has again shown the way to the country,” Yadav said in a tweet in Hindi.
