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Rahul Gandhi was invited to 10, Round Street right here, the federal government bungalow allotted to Lalu Prasad’s spouse Rabri Devi, by their son Tejashwi Yadav
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Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, who was on Saturday on a whistle-stop tour of Bihar, took a while off to satisfy RJD president Lalu Prasad, an previous political ally and household pal.
The Chief of the Opposition in Lok Sabha was invited to 10, Round Street right here, the federal government bungalow allotted to Prasad’s spouse Rabri Devi, by their son and inheritor obvious Tejashwi Yadav whom he had met earlier within the day.
Gandhi and Yadav had crossed paths at a metropolis resort the place the Congress chief freshened up earlier than addressing two back-to-back public occasions.
पटना पहुंचकर वरिष्ठ कांग्रेस नेता श्री @RahulGandhi जी ने आदरणीय श्री @laluprasadrjd जी और श्रीमती @RabriDeviRJD जी से उनके आवास पर भेंट की। श्री Tejashwi Yadav जी एवं सम्पूर्ण राजद परिवार ने स्नेहपूर्वक श्री राहुल गांधी जी से भेंट कर आवास भ्रमण भी कराया!#Bihar pic.twitter.com/kCh1U3RuhM— Rashtriya Janata Dal (@RJDforIndia) January 18, 2025
Yadav was on the resort alongside together with his mother and father and different family members, who collectively management the RJD, for the social gathering’s nationwide government.
After a short trade of pleasantries with Gandhi, Yadav informed reporters “I informed him that my total household will likely be happy to satisfy him after we’re finished with our respective engagements. He has mentioned he’ll come to our house”.
A couple of hours later, after having addressed a symposium on the Structure and a operate at state Congress headquarters, in addition to spending a while with college students protesting alleged irregularities in a current BPSC examination, Gandhi reached 10, Round Street.
The previous Congress president, who was on his first tour of Bihar since final yr’s Lok Sabha polls, was accompanied by state social gathering leaders.
Leaders of the 2 events obtained an opportunity to intermingle whereas Gandhi shared a fast chew with Prasad and Yadav earlier than boarding his return flight.
The assembly is anticipated to lead to a much-needed thaw, forward of meeting polls due later this yr, in relations between RJD and Congress which had of late been beneath pressure regardless of Prasad having been one of many staunchest supporters of Sonia Gandhi.
Final month, AICC secretary in control of Bihar Shahnawaz Alam had stirred a hornet’s nest by asserting that for the meeting elections, “strike charges in Lok Sabha polls” should be taken under consideration to reach at a seat-sharing method.
This was seen as an apparent provocation to the RJD, which had contested 23 seats within the basic elections however received solely 4, as in opposition to the Congress, which fought 9 and bagged three.
Quickly afterwards, Prasad ticked off the Congress by stating that he was in favour of West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee heading the INDIA bloc.
The spat had led NDA companions like Union minister Chirag Paswan to chuckle and predict that the opposition coalition would come aside within the run-up to meeting polls due to “ambitions of the Congress”.
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