Maharashtra: FIR Filed Against Tejashwi Yadav For Social Media Post On PM Modi

Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav posted an ‘objectionable’ social media post against Prime Minister Narendra Modi. After this incident, a First Information Report (FIR) was filed against Tejashwi Yadav in Maharashtra’s Gadchiroli. The FIR was registered against the former Bihar deputy chief minister after BJP MLA from Gadricholli Milind Narote filed a complaint with the police.

An FIR was registered against Yadav under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita sections 196 (promoting enmity between different groups), 356 (defamation), 352 (intentional insult with intent to provoke a breach of peace) and 353 (statements that cause public mischief), he added.

Narendra Modi was in Bihar for the upcoming Bihar Legislative Assembly Election. Attacking the PM’s rally in Gaya, Tejashwi Yadav shared a cartoon on his social media account X and called PM's rally a “shop of rhetoric”. Yadav made his remarks before the rally began along with a cartoon of PM Modi dressed as a shopkeeper. He showed Modi in a shop the signboard of which read “famous shop of Rhetoric.” In another post regarding the same context, the RJD leader challenged Modi to reveal how his government functioned in the last 11 years of NDA rule in India along with the NDA’s 20 years in Bihar.