Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav ended his Bihar Adhikar Yatra on Saturday (September 20, 2025) with an appeal for people’s support to change the government in the State. He said the Nitish Kumar-led NDA government has only cheated the people of Bihar for the past 20 years.
“We all have to take a pledge to change the government. When Tejashwi comes to power, not a single youth will be left without a job. We will provide better education and health care. I promise you that Tejashwi will take along people from all castes and religions,” Mr. Yadav said in Samastipur.
He started the Yatra in Jehanabad on September 16 and ended it in Vaishali district on Saturday (September 20, 2025). During the 5-day Yatra, he visited 10 districts which Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s Voter Adhikar Yatra did not cover.
According to party sources, Mr. Yadav strategically chose these 10 districts, having 66 assembly constituencies, to be covered by him as these are RJD strongholds.
Yadav-dominated constituencies
Out of these 10 districts, six are dominated by the Yadav community, which are Jehanabad, Patna, Madhepura, Saharsa, Supaul and Vaishali. The other four districts are Samastipur, Khagaria, Nalanda and Begusarai.
Since 2010, the RJD has continued to improve its gains in these 10 districts. It won eight out of 66 seats in the 2010 Assembly elections and bagged 22 in 2015. In 2020, despite the Janata Dal (United) leaving the alliance, the RJD repeated the performance by winning 22 seats from these 10 districts.
In 2020, the JD(U) won 19 seats and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) 15. The Congress won three seats, the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) (Liberation) three, the Communist Party of India (CPI) two, and the Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) and the Communist Party of India (Marxist) one each.
Job creation
Nalanda being the home turf of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and dominated by the Kurmi community, the RJD won only one out of seven constituencies here. The party needs to work on Madehpura, Saharsa and Supaul districts, where it could win only four out of 13 seats, despite these being Yadav-dominated districts.
In fact, in Supaul, the RJD did not even win a single seat in the last Assembly election. In Patna district, the RJD-led alliance won nine out of 14 seats.
RJD sources said that the Bihar Adhikar Yatra was aimed at gaining the lost ground and boosting the morale of the RJD supporters ahead of the upcoming Assembly election. It also aimed to keep the momentum alive after the Voter Adhikar Yatra.
Tejashwi Yadav at the Bihar Adhikar Yatra in Samastipur district on Saturday.
During the Yatra on his modified bus, the former Deputy Chief Minister focused on providing jobs and creating new employment opportunities for the youth if the INDIA bloc is voted to power.
He targeted the ruling JD(U) and BJP, blaming them for the deteriorating law and order in the state. Though he was measured in his attacks on the CM, he was more vocal against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah.
‘Bihar government run from Delhi’
In most of the public meetings, Mr. Yadav raised the matter of the Chief Minister’s health, calling him unconscious and saying that people around him had full control over him. He also reiterated his point that It was not Mr. Kumar who is running the Bihar government but Mr. Modi and Mr. Shah who are running it from Delhi.
Everywhere, he received a grand welcome with his supporters chanting slogans projecting him as the next Chief Minister.
In every meeting, Mr. Yadav asserted that the Nitish government copied his election promises. He listed out his achievements as the Deputy CM for 17 months and appealed to people to vote for him so that he can serve Bihar for five years.
On the last day, he resumed the Yatra from Samastipur’s Musrigharari Assembly constituency and then covered four more constituencies, which include Morwa in Samastipur district and Patepur, Mahua and Hajipur in Vaishali district, where he ended the Yatra.
Published – September 20, 2025 10:04 pm IST
