Tejashwi Yadav, senior leader of the Rashtriya Janata Dal, will contest from two seats in the coming assembly election in Bihar, sources have told NDTV.
One is his family turf Raghopur. The other is Phulparas, Madhubani, sources said, where the sitting MLA is Sheela Kumari of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's Janata Dal United. Her closest rival was Congress's Kripanath Pathak, who lost by around 11,000 votes.
The seat has been a JD(U) bastion since 2010. A victory here would be a blow to the ruling party and boost morale in the RJD camp.
In the 2020 assembly polls, Tejashwi Yadav won the Raghopur seat -- from where he debuted in 2015 -- by a margin of over 38,000 votes, defeating BJP's Satish Kumar.
Raghopur was represented earlier by Tejashwi Yadav's parents -- former Chief Ministers Lalu Prasad and Rabri Devi.
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