How Lalu prodded Tejashwi to take up LoP role

Going by several media reports, RJD leader and Mahagathbandhan's chief ministerial nominee Tejashwi Yadav was in no mood to take up the roles of -- the leader of RJD's legislative party and the role of Leader of Opposition in Bihar legislative assembly after his party's disastrous performance in the recently concluded Bihar polls. The RJD managed to secure only 25 seats, a massive climbdown from its earlier tally of 75 in 2020.

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However, like so many other major political decisions, his decision was influenced or perhaps he was forced to change his mind after RJD patriarch Lalu Yadav's immediate intervention. After the Mahagathbandhan's bruising loss in the recent Bihar Assembly elections, the RJD gathered its newly elected MLAs and defeated candidates for a closed-door review meeting on Monday. The meeting scheduled to