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Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Tejashwi Yadav defies medical advice and campaigns vigorously despite back pain, focusing on promises of employment and free rations as the INDIA bloc relies on him for the crucial 40 seats of Bihar.
In a major blow to Chirag Paswan's Lok Janshakti Party, 22 leaders from the party resigned after they expressed their displeasure over not getting Lok Sabha poll tickets. They said they will now support the Opposition INDIA bloc.
Sources in the JD(U) and BJP leadership say Bihar was close to becoming another successful example of BJP's 'Operation Lotus'. Until Nitish Kumar got wind and acted – with a little help from Tejashwi Yadav.
It is specious to gauge the political mood of a country as diverse and large as India from the results of the bypolls of 29 Assembly and three Lok Sabha seats. The results, however, are not good news for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)'s state governments in Himachal Pradesh and Haryana – both of which have witnessed farmers' agitations in the recent past.