Bihar polls: Tej Pratap Yadav files nomination papers from Mahua seat

Hajipur (Bihar), Oct 16 (PTI) Former Bihar minister Tej Pratap Yadav, who was recently expelled from the RJD by his father and founding president Lalu Prasad, on Thursday filed his nomination papers from Mahua assembly constituency in Vaishali district.

Tej Pratap, who recently floated political outfit Janshakti Janta Dal, submitted his documents while carrying a photograph of his late grandmother.

Talking to reporters after filing his nomination papers, elder son of RJD supremo Lalu Prasad, Tej Pratap said, “I have worked a lot in Mahua... earlier, when I represented the seat, I got a medical college sanctioned in the area. Now, I promise the people here that if I get elected, I will get an engineering college sanctioned in the area. Besides, I will keep doing other development works here”.

He had represented the Mahua seat till 2020, when the party made him shift to Hasanpur.

"I filed my nomination papers with the blessings of my late grandmother," he said, adding that my father used to do the same thing when he was contesting polls.

The Janshakti Janta Dal recently released a list of its 21 candidates for the upcoming assembly polls.

The former Bihar minister was expelled from the party on May 25 by his father Lalu Prasad for six years, a day after he reportedly confessed to being "in a relationship" with a woman.

He, however, deleted the Facebook post later with a claim that his page was "hacked".

Lalu Prasad also disowned Tej Pratap due to his "irresponsible behaviour".

A few days later, after his expulsion from the party, Tej Pratap had alleged that there was a "conspiracy" to drive a wedge between him and his younger brother Tejashwi Yadav.

He had voiced his sentiments in a couple of posts on his X handle, blaming the crisis on ‘Jaichand’, a metaphor for traitors. PTI PYK BDC