While the Mahagathbandhan alliance is still negotiating seat-sharing for the upcoming Bihar Assembly polls and the RJD has yet to declare its candidates, the sound of drumbeats rent the air in Raghopur, the constituency of RJD leader and Leader of the Opposition (LoP) Tejashwi Yadav, on Saturday morning.

The RJD stronghold then saw around two dozen horses and a convoy of SUVs, marking the arrival of Prashant Kishor, the election strategist-turned-politician and Jan Suraaj Party (JSP) founder, to officially launch his party’s poll campaign two days after he declared the first list of its 51 candidates.

First of the state’s leaders to hit the campaign trail following the Election Commission (EC)’s declaration of the poll schedule – on November 6 and 11 – Kishor entered the Raghopur constit

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