Bihar Assembly elections | Tej Pratap goes all out to woo Hasanpur
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At Hasanpur Assembly constituency Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) candidate and elder son of get together chief Lalu Prasad, Tej Pratap Yadav goes all out to woo the locals — enjoying cricket kids, driving a tractor, and sharing sattu (gram flour) and litti-chokha, a neighborhood snack, with younger voters.
Mr. Yadav has moved out of his constituency Mahua in Vaishali district to Hasanpur in Samastipur and is pitted in opposition to two-time sitting NDA MLA Rajkumar Rai of the JD(U).
According to the political buzz, Mr. Tej Pratap, who’s embroiled in marital dispute with Aishwarya Rai, granddaughter of former Bihar chief minister Daroga Prasad Rai and daughter of Chandrika Rai, selected to transfer out from Mahua amid rumours that Ms. Rai is perhaps fielded in opposition to him.
The Jan Adhikar Party (Loktantrik) and Lok Janshakti Party have fielded Arjun Yadav and Manish Kumar respectively within the constituency, which is probably going to divide the Yadav votes.
“RJD leader Tej Pratap Yadav might have chosen this constituency as a safe seat for it is being dominated by M-Y (Yadav and Muslim) voters which has been core vote bank of RJD since long,” political analyst Ajay Kumar informed The Hindu.
Hasanpur has over 70,000 Yadavs, almost 40,000 Muslim, 18,000 Paswan, 12,000 Kushwaha and over 10,000 higher caste votes.
Ahead of his youthful brother and get together’s CM face Tejashwi Yadav’s marketing campaign in Hasanpur on Monday, Tej Pratap Yadav tweeted to native folks saying his “Arjun” was coming to deal with them.
Hasanpur is thought for its defunct sugar mill, the Magadh Sugar & Energy Limited, with Mr Tej Pratap’s marketing campaign workplace situated within the iconic Chini Mill (sugar mill) Chowk.
At the workplace late one night final week, some younger are having an animated dialogue on the marketing campaign whereas others are dozing on mattresses unfold on the ground. Mr Tej Pratap who was campaigning within the Beethan space, was anticipated to return late at evening.
“Everyday he sets off on his campaign trail by 8 in the morning and returns late … he is staying at nearby town of Rosera with relatively good hotels,” shares a younger man, sporting a T-shirt with Tejashwi Yadav’s image in entrance and a slogan “Bihar mange Badlaw (Bihar demands a change)” on the reverse.
At a tea store outdoors the principle RJD workplace, the dialogue, because the solar units on a cool night, turns inevitably to the forthcoming election.
“Who is going to vote for a candidate like him (Tej Pratap Yadav)?… We’ll vote for Lalu Prasad, not him,” says Ramadhin Yadav, a voter in his sixties.
But why not?
“When he doesn’t meet us here, how can we meet him in Patna after his election,” ask the boys.
“But, we’ll vote for him in the name of Lalu Prasad who has been imprisoned for a long time in a conspiracy hatched by Nitish Kumar and BJP,” they are saying in a refrain.
One of the group, Ramesh Kushwaha, nevertheless, says Mr. Nitish Kumar introduced in growth by developing roads and bringing electrical energy in all places. The JD(U) candidate Rajkumar Rai must be elected once more, says Mr. Kushwaha.
“We should elect an MLA from local area and an MP from outside as we can meet the MLA to get our local work done and the MP for works outside the constituency and State,” he suggests.
“Tej Pratap is an outsider and the JD(U) candidate is local and also simple man,” he provides however is shouted down by others, most of them Yadavs.
“Voting for Rajkumar Rai is to bring Nitish Kumar again in power which we don’t want… We’ve nothing against the JD(U) candidate but we don’t want Nitish Kumar as CM again,” they are saying firmly.
Hasanpur votes within the second part on November 3.
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