Hundreds of Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) supporters gathered at Patna’s airport on Tuesday to protest the party’s own MLA, Rekha Devi, after her name was announced as the candidate for the Masaurhi seat in the upcoming Bihar assembly elections.
The crowd arrived as Tejashwi Yadav, the RJD’s chief opposition leader in the Bihar Legislative Assembly, was returning from Bhagalpur. Yadav was met by rows of people who shouted slogans demanding that Rekha Devi’s ticket be withdrawn and that someone else be selected. Their chants, “Masaurhi ko bachana hai, Rekha ko hatana hai” – “We must save Masaurhi, remove Rekha” – echoed through the airport.
Workers and supporters approached Yadav directly, hoping the party’s top leader would listen to their concerns and step in to change the candidate list. The protest illustrates growing frustration among RJD’s grassroots supporters over what they see as a misstep in choosing Rekha Devi for the seat.
In a separate thread of news the same day, Tejashwi Yadav also spoke out against a recent incident in which a shoe was thrown at Chief Justice BR Gavai inside the Supreme Court. Yadav condemned the act as a “shameful attack on the nation’s highest judicial office” and said it reflected a broader trend of rising hate and violence in India since 2014. He called the incident an assault on the Constitution and its architect, B. R. Ambedkar, and urged the public to protect the judiciary, the backbone of Indian democracy.
The two events – a local party protest and a national critique of judicial disrespect – highlight the turbulence within Bihar politics and the broader debate over violence and democracy in India.
Source: aninews
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