Amid Bihar campaign, seat-share row may be straining Rahul-Tejashwi ties

In August this year at the height of the Opposition's campaign against the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi rode a jeep together, with the former in the driver’s seat, during the Vote Adhikar Rally. At rallies, Yadav called Gandhi his “bade bhai (elder brother)” and both spoke about a united battle against the government.

- Sunetra Choudhury

But now, a combination of bitterness over seat sharing and underwhelming internal Congress assessments of its performance in the Bihar elections, may have driven a wedge