Bihar Assembly Elections 2025: Tej Pratap floats new outfit 'Jan Shakti Janata Dal' ahead of polls

The former state minister shared on X a poster of the ‘Jan Shakti Janata Dal’, with himself as the "national president" and a "blackboard" as its poll symbol.

RJD president Lalu Prasad’s elder son Tej Pratap Yadav, who was recently expelled from the party, on Friday announced that he has floated a new outfit for "a long battle" in Bihar.

The former state minister took to X (formerly Twitter) and shared a poster of the ‘Jan Shakti Janata Dal’, with himself as the "national president" and a "blackboard" as its poll symbol.

PTI citing a cources in the Election Commission said they were so far not aware of the party getting registered and allotted a symbol.

In August, Yadav had claimed that a coalition of five little-known parties has come into being under his leadership. Assembly polls in Bihar are due later this year.

Recently, Lalu Pradasd Yadav's daughter Rohini Acharya turned rebel and unfollowed her father and brothers Tejashwi Yadav and Tej Pratap Yadav and sister Misa Bharti (who is a Lok Sabha member) on social media, following a dispute within the family over Tejashwi’s confidant Sanjay Yadav, who is also a Rajya Sabha member.

It was believed that Rohini wanted to contest the upcoming Assembly elections but was given a cold shoulder by Tejashwi.

(with PTI inputs)