RJD's Tej Pratap Yadav Attends Union Minister's Event, Triggers Speculations

Tej Pratap Yadav raised many eyebrows when he walked down to the Patna office of the Lok Janshakti Party's faction headed by Pashupati Kumar Paras.

Lalu Prasad Yadav's elder son Tej Pratap Yadav on Friday turned up at a function hosted by Union minister Pashupati Kumar Paras, triggering speculations about the maverick RJD leader, who wears his religious fervour on the sleeves, cosying up to BJP-led NDA which his father has always fought tooth and nail.

Tej Pratap raised many eyebrows when he walked down to the Patna office of the Lok Janshakti Party's faction headed by Mr Paras, to attend the first death anniversary of the LJP's late founder and former Union minister Ram Vilas Paswan.

Warmly received by Mr Paras, the Hasanpur MLA took the mike to express his full support to the Union minister's demand that his dead elder brother be given the Bharat Ratna.

While Tej Pratap chose to honour the invitation extended by Mr Paras, younger brother Tejashwi, who lives just a few hundred metres away, preferred to pay floral tributes at his residence where a portrait of Mr Paswan was placed alongside that of Jayaprakash Narayan, whose death anniversary falls on the same date.