Tej Pratap Yadav ditches Hasanpur, returns to Mahua seat for Bihar polls

The Janshakti Janata Dal (JJD), led by Tej Pratap Yadav, older son of Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav, on Monday (October 13, 2025) announced the names of 21 candidates for the upcoming Bihar Assembly election.

On May 25, Mr. Lalu Prasad Yadav expelled from the RJD Mr. Tej Pratap Yadav, the incumbent MLA in the Hasanpur Assembly seat. The senior Mr. Yadav has also snapped all family ties with his older son, criticising Mr. Tej Pratap Yadav’s actions as “irresponsible”, and not in accordance with public conduct. In May 2018, Mr. Tej Pratap Yadav married Aishwarya Rai, granddaughter of former Bihar Chief Minister Daroga Prasad Rai, but filed for a divorce within five months.

Going by the Assembly seats he has selected, Mr. Tej Pratap Yadav has fielded the maximum number of candidates in constituencies where the RJD won in the 2020 election.