Weeks after Janata Dal (United) president and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar snapped ties with the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) to form a BJP-led NDA government in Bihar, former Deputy CM and Leader of the Opposition Tejashwi Yadav is now all set to embark on a 10-day Jan Vishwas Yatra (people’s trust journey) beginning on February 20 from Muzaffarpur in the northern part of the State and is scheduled to end on February 29.
During his yatra, Mr. Yadav would cover all 38 districts of Bihar and address 32 public meetings in which he is expected to highlight achievements of the previous mahagathbandhan (grand coalition) government in which the RJD was the principal ruling ally with the Janata Dal (United) [JD(U)], the Congress and three Left parties.
Deputy Chief Minister and State BJP president Samrat Choudhary on Monday, however, launched a sharp attack on Mr. Yadav’s proposed yatra saying that he should “come out with loot yatra instead of vishwas yatra”. “He [Tejashwi Yadav] should come out with a ‘loot yatra’, instead of jan vishwas yatra. He should first address the corruption allegations against him and his family members”, Mr. Choudhary told media persons on Monday.
