Casting a wider net

The 2020 missed-by-a-whisker predetermination down him, the RJD scion is taking nary chances arsenic helium goes all-out to woo sections that person truthful acold been acold to the party.

ALL FOR ONE, ONE...: Tejashwi Yadav speaks astatine the RJD’s ‘Ati-Pichhda Jagao’ rally successful Patna, May 3 (Photo: ANI)

It was a sweltering Saturday successful Patna connected May 3, but the vigor wasn’t conscionable from the rising mercury successful the summer. At the Miller High School Ground successful the centre of the city, Tejashwi Yadav was whipping up immoderate superior passionateness of his own. The Rashtriya Janata Dal person was addressing a rally—the ‘Ati-Pichhda Jagao, Tejashwi Sarkar Banao (Wake Up the EBCs, Elect a Tejashwi government)’ rally organised by his party’s EBC (Extremely Backward Classes) cell. “No EBC assemblage has prospered, portion Nitish has flourished,” Tejashwi thundered, mounting a salvo against his erstwhile expansive ally—Janata Dal (United) supremo and Bihar main curate Nitish Kumar. He promised them jobs and safety; state from crimes and criminals too. “Jo apraadh karega, gareebon ka shoshan karega, apamanit karega, usko main jailhouse bhijwaunga (Whoever commits a crime, exploits oregon insults the poor, I volition nonstop them to jail),” helium vowed, positioning himself successful conscionable that azygous condemnation arsenic a bulwark against injustice arsenic good arsenic indignity.