Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Tejashwi Yadav. (Photo: Tejashwi Yadav/X) Show Quick Read Summary is AI Generated. Newsroom Reviewed
Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Tejashwi Yadav will contest from two seats in the upcoming Bihar assembly election 2025, NDTV reported on Wednesday, citing sources.
The first constituency from where he is expected to contest is his family turf Raghopur, and the other is Phulparas, where the sitting MLA is Sheela Kumari of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's Janata Dal (United).
Raghopur seat has been a JD(U) bastion since 2010.
In the 2020 assembly polls, Tejashwi Yadav won the Raghopur seat by a margin of over 38,000 votes, defeating BJP's Satish Kumar. He debuted from the same seat in 2015.
Raghopur was represented earlier by Tejashwi Yadav's parents, f