Congress leaders back Tejashwi as CM face
Patna: Congress working committee (CWC) member and the party's former state president, Akhilesh Prasad Singh, said on Friday that if the Grand Alliance gets a majority in the upcoming assembly polls,
RJD
leader
Tejashwi Prasad Yadav
would be the chief minister.
"If not Tejashwi, then who else will become the CM?" Singh said while responding to media queries while coming out of the official residence of the RJD president Lalu Prasad in the state capital here. Leader of opposition Tejashwi lives at the same residence with his parents Lalu and former CM Rabri Devi.
Singh met Lalu and Tejashwi. Akhilesh and Lalu had a long conversation on the poll-related issues.
While coming out of Lalu's residence, Singh told reporters that Tejashwi would be the chief minister, if the Grand Alliance is voted to power.
Another Congress leader and former JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar too said that there was no confusion or dispute over Tejashwi being the opposition's face for the CM's post in Bihar.
Kanhaiya, who hails from Begusarai, also said that the CM would be from the RJD if the Grand Alliance gets a majority in the upcoming assembly polls.
Talking to reporters, Kanhaiya said, the waves of change are stronger than in the last assembly polls in Bihar and the BJP is not raking up 'Operation Sindoor' as a poll plank because it knows that the people of the state will respond negatively to it as they believe it to be a matter of the country's honour and no party should politicise it.
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He also said, "It is true that the RJD is the bigger party, has more MLAs, it provides leadership to the 'Mahagathbandhan', they have the post of leader of the opposition. Naturally, it is their responsibility. There is no confusion over Tejashwi being the opposition's CM face."
Addressing a function here, Tejashwi said he never got a chance of serving people for an uninterrupted period of five years. He urged the people to provide him a term of full five years to lead the state and serve its people in a better way.
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