Mahagathbandhan will form govt in Bihar, says Tejashwi Yadav

Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav has said that even if someone else sits on the chief minister’s chair, the people’s mandate was clearly in his favour. He told reporters on Thursday that the RJD  has emerged as the single-largest in the recently held Bihar Assembly elections. 

Yadav charged that the mandate favoured Mahagathbandhan, but Election Commission’s result was in NDA’s favour. This hasn’t happened for the first time. In 2015, when Mahagathbandhan was formed, votes were in our favour but BJP made a back-door entry to gain power. Calling elections a fight to save democracy, Yadav drew attention to the established rules of counting postal ballots first before Electronic Voting Macines (EVMs) can be counted, claiming that not all postal ballots were counted. He read out the rules of counting from the Election Commission’s rulebook and claimed these weren’t followed to the letter.This was  a mandate for change. Nitish Kumar is sitting in the chief minister’s chair but we are in people’s hearts,”  said Tejashwi Yadav. 

Earliar, at the party meeting he said that that the Mahagathbandhan will be forming government in Bihar. Tejashwi has asked all RJD MLAs to stay in Patna for a month and not return to their constituencies just yet. Tejashwi has told RJD members that the party will wait and watch how HAM and VIP are accommodated in the NDA and then plan its actions.

Meanwhile, Congress General Secretary Tariq Anwar has conceded that the party performance was not as good as RJD and the Left parties. They performed way better than us. Had we performed like them, there would've been Mahagathbandhan govt in Bihar. The people of Bihar wanted the same and had made up their mind for a change. We will hold discussions with our top leadership in Bihar, our election candidates and our District Congress Committees, and reach a conclusion. We will then inform the High Command.