RJD, in its meeting under chairmanship of Tejashvi Yav, was seen using posters of RJD leer and dreed gangster and convicted criminal, Mohamm Shahabuddin, on Wednesday. photographs and posters are clearly visible in meeting, which was of party's mirity cell and being held in Patna

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Convicted Gangster for Political mile 

poster of RJD sees Shahabuddin being placed front and centre, clearly indicating that party intends to lever him and that he still figures in ir political plans, despite having been convicted on charges of murder as well as various or charges for which he is lodged in jail. use of former Siwan MP's face in such a poster also comes with little over a year to go before assembly elections in Bihar.

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Debarred from Elections

RJD's Mohamm Shahabuddin was elected four times from Siwan, Bihar and was elected twice as MLA, to Bihar Vidhan Sabha (Legislative Assembly). Eventually, after being convicted in many criminal cases, he was debarred from contesting  2009 general elections.

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Bihar Lok Sabha election results

RJD faces an uphill task in next year's assembly elections if this year's Lok Sabha polls are anything to go by. party, which went into elections in alliance with Congress, was utterly decimated, with JD(U)-BJP alliance managing to win all but one of 40 seats on offer. Since n, re have been numerous veiled overtures by RJD to tempt CM Nitish Kumar to leave NDA and re-forge Mahagathbandhan that h defeated BJP in 2015 elections by a significant margin. RJD h emerged single-largest party in state in those polls, though ir alliance with JD(U) ended prematurely.

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