On the day of Rakshabandhan, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader and former Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar Tejashwi Yadav on Saturday (August 9, 2025) penned a message to the sisters of Bihar with regard to the benevolent work he has decided if voted to power in the upcoming assembly election.
Mr. Yadav wished all the sisters of Bihar would pray to God that this Rakshabandhan gives them happiness, prosperity, peace and progress.
“I want to make a request to you. I request that after tying rakhi to your brothers, you tie one more rakhi in the name of your brother Tejashwi. Yes, your Tejashwi bhaiya cannot come to every house in Bihar, but he is thinking about every house, about the prosperity of every sister and is making policies for them,” Mr. Yadav said in the letter addressed to the sisters of Bihar on social media account X.
The Leader of Opposition urged the sisters of Bihar to extend their cooperation and take a pledge to make Bihar number one.
“Give a Rakhi on Rakshabandhan and a vote in the elections to your Tejashwi brother, I assure you that whether it is protection from unemployment, inflation, crime, poverty, corruption, I will always work for you as your protective circle, this is Tejashwi’s pledge to every sister of Bihar,”Mr. Yadav said.
Mr. Yadav himself has seven sisters – eldest one is Misa Bharti followed by Rohini Acharya, Chanda Singh, Ragini Yadav, Hema Yadav, Anushka Yadav and Raj Lakshmi as the youngest one.
Mr. Yadav is in the national capital to celebrate the festival along with the sisters. He pointed out that everything has been planned and blueprint is also ready for the sisters of Bihar.
He listed out schemes decided by the INDIA bloc in Bihar led by RJD, like the BETI programme, which deals with taking care of all the arrangements from birth of daughter till her marriage.
Mr. Yadav also talked about other schemes like Mai-Behan Yojana to give women ₹2500 every month, schemes to increase the pension of widows, elderly people and disabled people to ₹1500.
Apart from providing gas cylinders for ₹ 500, 200 units of free electricity, high-class residential coaching institutes for daughters, world-class sports training and other facilities, job and employment, free examination form, free fare to and from the examination center and control on paper leak.
“Your brother Tejashwi has decided a lot more for you, and only a little time is left for the assembly elections. The people’s government will come and your brother Tejashwi will fulfil his vow and start delivering these schemes to every home and to every sister,” Mr. Yadav said.
Without mentioning the name of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, the RJD leader said that Bihar has been a victim of negative politics for the last 20 years, and the man sitting on the throne earlier used to sing the song of impossible all the time and now giving doles keeping election in mind.
“Nothing is impossible, and in 17 months, I turned that impossible work into reality. I was asked from where will I bring money to provide jobs, will it come from my father’s house, but we showed by providing lakhs of jobs,” Mr. Yadav said.
He requested the sisters not to fall into the trap of the latest announcement made by the Bihar CM ahead of the assembly election.
“I take one more pledge, as soon as we come to power, the ₹ 70,000 crore embezzled by this government will be taken back from them and will be given to the sisters of Bihar as a Rakshabandhan shagun,” Mr. Yadav said.
He asserted that sisters of Bihar and every resident of Bihar will teach a lesson to the NDA government by defeating them and their negative, destructive, inefficient, greedy, corrupt, dictatorial, divisive, useless, violent, criminals-protecting old government and will form the Mahagathbandhan government.
Published – August 09, 2025 01:14 pm IST
