Seeking to shake off the labelling by the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) as a party of Muslims and Yadavs alone, the party’s top leader Tejashwi Yadav asserted that the RJD stands for the “A to Z” castes and communities.
As a counter, he has offered an umbrella combination that is aimed at taking along both the backward and forward castes, women, and the poor.
“Some people say that we are only a MY party, a party of Muslims and Yadav. But we are also a BAAP — party where B stands for Bahujan, A for ‘agda’ (upper caste), A for ‘aadhi aabadi’ (women, half the population), and P for the poor,” he claimed, as he spoke at length on the various achievements in the 17 months during which the RJD was in power, including providing employment to five lakh persons.
