Tejashwi slams NDA, says 'Bihar govt using COVID as excuse to avoid Assembly session'

RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav on Tuesday targeted the Bihar Government alleging that the government is using the COVID-19 pandemic to avoid holding a session of the state Assembly. Tejashwi Yadav took to Twitter and posted a few pieces of newspaper reports that covered him taking shots at the government.

"The Bihar government is escaping the assembly functioning in the name of Coronavirus. The government wants to run away from issues of public interest because this corrupt and useless government has no answer to public questions. They held elections, opened the schools despite Coronavirus. But the government will not allow the functioning of the conventionally held assembly session," Yadav tweeted.

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Continuing with his onslaught further, he asked the ruling NDA government whether it will give Patna University a status of National University, as the Centre and state government are both run by NDA.

"Does the Bihar's double engine government, various parties of NDA, 39 Lok Sabha MPs out of 40 of NDA, 9 Rajya Sabha MPs, half a dozen ministers from Bihar, two deputy chief ministers and Chief Minister have the capacity to give Patna University, the status of Central University," he tweeted further.

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'RJD ready for mid-term elections'

The RJD leader on multiple occasions has been lashing out at Chief Minister Nitish Kumar as the latter had joined hands with RJD in a Mahagathbandhan in the previous term but later broke out of the Mahagathbandhan and got back to NDA, his former ally.

Yadav on Friday slammed the JDU chief Nitish Kumar, rubbishing the speculations of giving him an offer to get back to Mahagathbandhan. He had contended that the government will not last long amid the reports of internal conflicts in the NDA coalition in Bihar. Yadav also asserted that the RJD is ready for midterm elections.

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JD(U)'s marginal performance in Assembly polls 

The 2020 Bihar Assembly election witnessed a voter turnout of 57.05 per cent as against that of 56.66 per cent in the 2015 polls. The polls turned out to be a nail-biting contest with NDA emerging victorious in 125 seats as against that of 110 seats won by the Mahagatbandhan. BJP, RJD, JD(U), Congress won 74, 75, 43, and 19 seats respectively. BJP winning more seats than JD(U) for the first time in a Bihar Assembly election led to the speculation that JD(U)'s clout in the alliance will reduce. LJP is believed to have damaged JD(U)'s prospects in 32 seats despite bagging a solitary seat.

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