Taking a dig at him, Tejashwi said that although he has become Chief Minister, he neither has his own vision nor understands important legislative processes.
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Leader of the Opposition in the Bihar Assembly, Tejashwi Yadav, has opened a front against Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary, who strongly criticised on Sunday the RJD, Congress and other opposition parties for defeating the Women’s Reservation Bill presented in the Lok Sabha on Friday, alleging that it was a betrayal of women.
Taking a dig at him, Tejashwi said that although he has become Chief Minister, he neither has his own vision nor understands important legislative processes.
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He said, “Samrat Choudhary does not take decisions on his own. He acts according to signals from Delhi. The reins of Bihar are no longer controlled from Patna but from Delhi.”
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He alleged that the Chief Minister receives instructions from the PMO and has become merely a “puppet” executing those orders.
Referring to the Women’s Reservation Bill, Tejashwi Yadav said that Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary has no understanding of its finer details. He alleged that Choudhary and his government are merely doing politics in the name of women’s empowerment, while their knowledge of the bill is “zero.”
He questioned, “If he is the Chief Minister, he should be able to explain the complexities of the bill to the public, but he himself seems confused.”
According to Tejashwi, the alliance of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Janata Dal (United) (JDU) is engaged only in symbolic politics. The Women’s Reservation Bill was already passed about three years ago with an overwhelming majority. The BJP should explain why it has not been implemented yet.
The RJD National Working President further said, “Hardline, anti-women, hypocritical and deceitful BJP leaders should open their eyes, accept this truth, and release comparative data.”
In the Lok Sabha elections 2024, RJD gave the maximum number of tickets to women in Bihar — 29%, and 25% of RJD’s Lok Sabha MPs are women. Similarly, in the Bihar Assembly elections 2025, RJD gave the maximum number of tickets to women — 17%. In the Bihar Legislative Council too, RJD has the highest representation of women among parties at 21.4%.”
He also pointed out that so far, Bihar’s first and last woman Chief Minister has been from RJD. In the past 30 years, the last woman Union Minister from Bihar in the Government of India was also from RJD.
“The anti-women BJP-JDU-NDA, has not made even a single woman from Bihar a Union Minister or Chief Minister, and yet these ‘pseudo-hypocrites’ talk about women’s empowerment,” he said.
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