TN CM Stalin in Bihar, ‘Tejashwi walking in his father Lalu Yadav footsteps’
28-Aug-2025.
India Bloc leader and DMK Chief MK Stalin joined RJD’s Tejeshvi Yadav and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in ‘Voter Adhikar rally’ in poll-bound Bihar state.
Tamil Nadu chief minister M K Stalin said in Bihar on August 27 that his father and former CM Karunanidhi was very good friends with Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) supremo Lalu Yadav, adding his son Tejashwi Yadav is walking in father's steps.
Stalin praised Lalu Yadav saying he was one of the most prominent leaders in the country who could not be intimidated by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
The DMK Chief said while addressing a rally in Muzaffarpur, "Our leader Karunanidhi and Lalu Yadav were very good friends. Lalu Yadav’s son Tejashwi Yadav taking inspiration from him, is also walking in his footsteps".
The Tamil Nadu chief asserted that the INDIA BLOC will win the Bihar assembly polls "if the elections were free and fair", and described deletion of voters' names from electoral rolls as "worse than terrorism".
The Congress party has alleged mass vote "chori" or theft by the Election Commission of India to make the BJP win. The allegations have been refuted by both.
M K Stalin said who was impressed with the response to the yatra taken out in protest against the (SIR) special intensive revision of electoral rolls, "For the past one month, the entire nation has been looking keenly at Bihar... the Election Commission has become a remote-controlled puppet".
Stalin asked, "Is the deletion of names of 65 lakh people (from the draft electoral rolls) not worse than terrorism?"
The India BLOC leader M K Stalin was referring to the removal of 65 lakh names from Bihar electoral rolls as part of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise being carried out by the ECI.
When Rahul Gandhi raised doubts over the fairness of elections held in the past, he was challenged by chief election commissioner Gyanesh Kumar to furnish an affidavit.
"But you cannot scare Rahul Gandhi," the DMK chief said, lauding his alliance partner, the DMK Chief added.
M K Stalin said, "I have seen Rahul's camaraderie with Tejashwi, who ride motorcycles together. This friendship is deeper than a run-of-the-mill political partnership. And I am sure that if the elections are free and fair, the BJP-led NDA will be defeated," Stalin said further.
DMK MP and Stalin's sister Kanimozhi, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, RJD's Tejashwi Yadav and CPI(ML) general secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya were also present during the rally.
