BJP T0 MAKE TEJASHWI YADAV'S ALLEGED CORRUPTION FOCUS OF BIHAR POLL CAMPAIGN

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is preparing to make Tejashwi Yadav’s alleged corruption the centrepiece of its Bihar election campaign, signalling a clear shift from its older “jungle raj” narrative that long defined its attacks on the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD).

- ABHINANDAN MISHRA

Party strategists say the focus will move from law-and-order to financial impropriety and misuse of office,drawing froma string of CBIand Enforcement Directorate investigations involvingthe Yadav family.

According to BJP sources,the campaign will highlightnow, during Lalu PrasadYadav’s tenure as RailwayMinister, two IRCTC hotelsin Puri and Ranchi were allegedly allotted to a privatehotelier in exchange for 3.5 acres of land in Patna.The land was not directlytaken in the family’s name,but transferred to DelightMarketing, a company thenowned by RJD MP PremChand Gupta.