At Opposition Meet, Tejashwi Yadav Seeks "Driving Seat" For Regional Parties

Tejashwi Yadav said the opposition had "innumerable issues" at hand but was "unable to cash in on these despite palpable public anger".

The opposition in the country must get cracking for the next Lok Sabha polls and regional parties must be allowed to be in the "driving seat" wherever they are strong, RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav asserted today. Addressing a meeting of opposition parties convened by Congress president Sonia Gandhi in Delhi via video conference, the RJD leader said that the recent assembly polls in West Bengal, where BJP was trounced, and Bihar, where NDA scraped through, could serve as an inspiration for the big battle in 2024. The 33-year-old, who steered his party to an impressive show in the Bihar polls last year, underscored that the opposition needed to bring in "dhaar" (edge) and "nayaapan" (novelty) in its electoral issues. "The opposition must fight polls on its own agenda... the experience of West Bengal and Bihar has shown how we should be taking on the BJP," said the RJD leader.