At a time when senior Congress leaders in Bihar have maintained that the Chief Ministerial face of the Opposition alliance will be decided only after the Assembly elections, two of the party’s prominent voices - Rajya Sabha MP and former Bihar Pradesh Congress Committee (BPCC) president Akhilesh Kumar Singh, and youth leader Kanhaiya Kumar - have publicly endorsed Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav for the post.
“Who else other than RJD’s Tejashwi Yadav will be the CM face of the Opposition bloc?” Mr. Singh told media persons on Thursday (June 26) night, following a meeting with RJD supremo Lalu Prasad and his son Tejashwi Yadav at the residence of former Chief Minister Rabri Devi in Patna’s Circular Road. Mr. Singh, known to be close to the RJD patriarch, was recently replaced as BPCC chief by Dalit leader Rajesh Kumar.
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“The wind of change is blowing across the state and is visible on every face here. People want to get rid of the present dispensation,” he added.
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