Tejashwi Prasad Yadav
PATNA: RJD leader and former Bihar deputy CM Tejashwi Prasad Yadav will kickstart his election campaign for Assam assembly polls by addressing a public rally at Senairam Boarding field in Tinsukia town, the headquarters of Tinsukia district, on March 22.
It will be Tejashwi’s maiden election rally in Assam where the RJD is part of the Congress-led eight-party Grand Alliance. RJD has fielded Hira Devi, a businesswoman from the Hindi speaking community, as its candidate from Tinsukia assembly seat.
“Tejashwi will land at Assam’s Dibrugarh airport around 9.30 am on March 22. From the airport, he will go to Tinsukia via road. He will reach Tinsukia around 11.30 pm,” RJD’s Assam state president Shonarul Shah Mustafa told TOI over the phone on Wednesday.
RJD candidate from Tinsukia seat Hira Devi
PATNA: Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) has decided to highlight unnecessary harassment of Hindi-speaking people during the process of updating of National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam during its campaign for the ongoing assembly election.
Ill effects of the Citizenship Amendment Act-2019 (CAA) and the recent unprecedented rise in the prices of petroleum products especially diesel and cooking gas will also be highlighted in the poll campaign.
Lalu Prasad-led party is contesting the Hindi-Bhashi dominated Tinsukia seat in the first phase as part of seat-sharing among the eight allies of the Congress-led Grand Alliance and also hoping to get one more seat-Gauhati West- in the third phase. Assam goes to the polls in three phases on March 27, April 1 and 6.
India News: NEW DELHI: The Congress-led "Grand Alliance" in Assam got a boost on Tuesday as the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) formally joined the opposition grouping.
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RJD join hands with Grand-Alliance ; to field one Candidate in Assam Assembly Polls
The RJD will contest from the Tinsukia constituency which will go to polls in the first phase on March 27. The party has decided to field Hira Devi Choudhury for Tinsukia.
| 9 March 2021 3:02 PM GMT
GUWAHATI: In yet another political development the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) has joined hands with the Congress led Grand Alliance or Mahajoot ahead of the Assam Assembly Elections slated to be held on March 27. The RJD will field one candidate in the ensuing election.
The Congress is contesting the Assembly elections in alliance with the AIUDF, Bodoland People s Front (BPF), CPI, CPI(M), CPI(ML) and the Anchalik Gana Morcha (AGM), with the joining of the RJD, the number of constituents in the Grand Alliance has gone up to eight.