RJD members participated in a bicycle rally targeting the Center on rising oil prices.
Patna:
Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) of Lalu Prasad Yadav today celebrated its 24th day of founding as the sons of the party leader and other members took part in a rally of bicycles aimed at targeting the ruling NDA on the rising oil prices.
The party celebrated its founding day in the absence of its founding president for the third consecutive year, Lalu Prasad Yadav being absent from Ranchi, serving sentences in a number of cases related to the fodder scam.
The RJD was launched on July 5, 1997. The party was born following a split provoked in the Janata Dal by Lalu Prasad, who was then its acting president and feared a defeat at the hands of the challenger Sharad Yadav in organizing surveys.
This decision helped the former chief minister hand over the baton to his wife Rabri Devi when he faced imminent arrest after a charge sheet was laid against him in the fodder scam.
“I was too young at the time, so I don’t remember much these days. Lalu Yadav is not an individual but an ideology. We miss him not only for us, but for the general public,” said said Tejashwi Yadav, the youngest son of Lalu Yadav. before embarking on the bicycle rally.
Tejashwi, who, under his father’s wing, made his debut in 2015 during Assembly elections and became deputy minister at 25, is expected to face unrest later this year as a candidate chief ministerial of his party and main challenger of his former boss Nitish Kumar.
“Bihar owes a lot to Lalu ji in terms of social justice and job creation. Three railway workshops were established in the state when he held the Centre’s portfolio for only five years. at a time when unemployment and oil prices are at an all-time low, his interventions would have been invaluable, “said the opposition leader in the National Assembly.
Tejashwi Yadav, who stays with his mother in the house assigned to him as a former CM, left for the seat of state by bicycle, followed by hundreds of supporters who pedaled on the road nearly five kilometers they traveled to reach Birchand Patel Marg.
His older brother Tej Pratap Yadav, who recently returned from a pilgrimage to Mathura, was one of the greatest cyclists apart from Tejashwi.
However, along the way, workers at the RJD had to face opponents opposed to the JD (U) -BJP group, which had defeated the opposition party in last year’s general elections.
JD (U) Minister of State and Chief Executive Neeraj Kumar said: “This is just the beginning. The RJD, which represents nothing but corruption, the dynasty regime and the condescension of criminals, will be called repeatedly for his sins in the days to come. “
