RJD leaders Tej Pratap Yadav and Tejashwi Yadav
RJD leader Tej Pratap Yadav has formed a new student organization. He named it Chhatra Janshakti Parishad. Tej Pratap, elder son of RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav, said the main objective of the new organization would be to raise issues like unemployment, education and health in Bihar.
Tej Pratap, who was the state’s health minister in the Nitish Kumar-led Mahagathbandhan government, said the main objective behind forming the new organization is to strengthen the party. It will take up the issues of deteriorating education, health and rising unemployment in the state. However, he said the organization would not function as a separate entity and would be an integral part of the RJD.
Tej Pratap’s decision to form a new student body assumes significance as it comes amid growing differences with Tejashwi Yadav, the younger brother and de facto head of the RJD. Tejashwi is the Leader of the Opposition in the Bihar Legislative Assembly. He had also served as the Deputy CM in the Mahagathbandhan government.
Notably, Tej Pratap is at loggerheads with state party chief Jagdanand Singh. Singh had earlier sacked Akash Yadav, a close aide of Tej Pratap, from the post of state president of Chhatra RJD (student wing).
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