{"id":327558,"date":"2020-10-14T10:22:22","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T10:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=327558"},"modified":"2020-10-14T10:32:12","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T10:32:12","slug":"bihar-elections-2020-tejashwi-yadav-files-nomination-assures-10-lakh-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/bihar-elections-2020-tejashwi-yadav-files-nomination-assures-10-lakh-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Bihar Elections 2020: Tejashwi Yadav files nomination, assures 10 lakh jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-327559 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/tejashwi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"573\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/tejashwi.jpg 573w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/tejashwi-300x281.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/tejashwi-449x420.jpg 449w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 573px) 100vw, 573px\" \/>Ahead of Bihar polls, RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav&#8217;s son and leader of the opposition\u00a0Tejashwi Yadav on Wednesday filed his nomination papers from the Raghopur Assembly seat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Talking to reporters, Tejashwi Yadav said after coming to power, in his first cabinet meet, his\u00a0government Mahagathbandhan (grand alliance) will\u00a0sanction jobs for 10 lakh\u00a0youths. \u201cThese will be government jobs and permanent in nature,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cUnemployment rate in Bihar is 46.6%. What does he have to say on the terror of unemployment, poverty, starvation and migration? What did their double-engine government do in 15 years? It&#8217;s their attempt to divert from agenda but we want to contest election on agenda,\u201d Tejashwi told reporters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He also challenged\u00a0Bihar\u00a0CM\u00a0Nitish Kumar to file nomination papers from any Assembly segment in his home district of Nalanda. \u201cI will also file my nomination from the same seat and defeat him,&#8221; the RJD leader told reporters.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In Raghopur, Tejashwi will be contesting against BJP&#8217;s Satish Kumar. His elder brother Tej Pratap had filed his nomination from Hasanpur seat on Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The elections to elect 243-member Bihar assembly will take place in three phases. The first phase of elections will be held on October 28, the second phase of elections will be held on November 3 and the last phase of elections will be held on November 7. The counting of votes will take place on November 10.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of Bihar polls, RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav&#8217;s son and leader of the opposition\u00a0Tejashwi Yadav on Wednesday filed his nomination papers from the Raghopur Assembly seat. Talking to reporters, Tejashwi Yadav said after coming to power, in his first cabinet meet, his\u00a0government Mahagathbandhan (grand alliance) will\u00a0sanction jobs for 10 lakh\u00a0youths. \u201cThese will be government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":327559,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2915,2089,1801,2014],"tags":[842],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327558"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327558"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327562,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327558\/revisions\/327562"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/327559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}