Rashtriya Janata Dal leader and the Opposition’s chief ministerial face Tejashwi Yadav was leading in the Raghopur constituency as votes in the Bihar Assembly elections were being counted on Friday.

As of 10.33 am, the RJD leader was ahead with a margin of about 900 votes. He had secured 8,387 votes. The Bharatiya Janata Party’s Satish Kumar Yadav was trailing with 7,471 votes.

This was after two of the thirty rounds of counting.

“It will be a people’s victory,” Tejashwi Yadav told reporters earlier in the day. “Change will come. We are forming the government.”

The Raghopur seat has been dominated by the RJD since it was won by party founder and Tejashwi Yadav’s father Lalu Prasad in 1995. The only exception was between 2010 and 2015, when the Chief Minister Nitish Kumar-led Janata D

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