'He is not': RJD veteran questions Tejashwi's 'Jannayak' projection; urges him to 'earn' it

PATNA: INDIA bloc CM look Tejashwi Yadav's projection arsenic "jannayak (people's leader)" and "nayak (hero)" has been contested not lone by BJP but besides by a elder wrong his ain RJD, with its nationalist wide caput Abdul Bari Siddiqui taking objection to specified labels. Siddiqui said it would instrumentality Tejashwi clip and hard enactment to get the rubric of Jannayak, which is exclusively utilized for erstwhile Bihar CM and Bharat Ratna Karpoori Thakur. "Tejashwi is engaged successful authorities based connected his begetter and RJD main Lalu Prasad's legacy. He is the virasat (legacy) of Lalu Prasad's authorities and whitethorn get this honour aft establishing himself by pursuing the footsteps of his begetter and Thakur," Siddiqui added. While RJD posters with Tejashwi's photograph, captioned "Bihar ka Nayak" person travel up up of adjacent month's assembly elections, helium arsenic good arsenic Congress Lok Sabha absorption person Rahul Gandhi were archetypal called jannayak during "Voter Adhikar Yatra" successful the authorities implicit a period agone against the peculiar intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. The enactment seems to person intensified aft Congress enactment up societal media posts connected Monday with videos and photos of Rahul, describing him arsenic jannayak.

Tejashwi's estranged elder member Tej Pratap besides disapproved of specified titles. "Calling yourself jannayak doesn't marque you a people's leader. Karpoori Thakur, Ram Manohar Lohia, Ambedkar and Mahatma Gandhi were the existent jannayaks. Rahul and Tejashwi are nether the "chatrachaya (protection and patronage) of Lalu Prasad. If that extortion is removed, they volition beryllium nothing," Tej Pratap said. BJP's Shehzad Poonawalla seized connected Siddiqui's connection to assertion that neither the nationalist nor his ain colleagues had assurance successful Tejaswhi. "Despite contesting elections for years, helium has failed to gain people's trust. Even wrong his circle, from RJD's Abdul Bari Siddiqui to SP MLA Ravidas Mehrotra, too his member Tej Pratap, nary 1 sees him arsenic a existent leader," helium said. Another BJP spokesperson, Ajay Alok, took the rubric tiff further, saying Tejashwi "is not a nayak but nalayak".