Amid Encephalitis outbreak in Bihar, questions were raised on the silence and absence of Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Tejashwi Yadav regarding the issue. Tejashwi Yadav on Saturday, June 29, took to social media, informing people of the reason for his absence.
“Friends! For last few weeks I was busy undergoing treatment for my long delayed ligament & ACL injury. However, I’m amused to see political opponents as well as a section of media cooking up spicy stories,” Yadav wrote.
“We are accountable to people who look for a socialist-secular and social justice alternative in us and wish to assure that we are very much here and the fight is on…Recent developments helped me study, scrutinize, analyse and appraise the things in a different way.”
Friends! For last few weeks I was busy undergoing treatment for my long delayed ligament & ACL injury. However, I’m amused to see political opponents as well as a section of media cooking up spicy stories.
— Tejashwi Yadav (@yadavtejashwi) June 29, 2019
“Constantly following up the untimely loss of hundreds of poor kids due to AES. In this tragic moment asked party workers, leaders to visit affected families without getting into Photo-OP and MPs to raise it in Parliament & that’s why PM responded. My Dear Bihar! I am very much here.”
“Since its birth RJD has been at the centre of poor peoples’ struggle and that position is not lost only because of an electoral defeat. Wish to assure people of Bihar as well as our spirited cadre, we are going to fight with renewed commitment on everyday life issues of poor and downtrodden.”
Earlier, posters announcing a reward of Rs 5100 “for those who find Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Tejashwi Yadav” were seen in Muzaffarpur on Friday, June 21. Besides the reward amount, the poster contained a note at the end marking the date since the RJD leader has been ‘lost’ as 2019 Lok Sabha results.
