Bihar Elections 2025: Tejashwi Yadav To Contest From Two Seats, Say Sources

Tejashwi Yadav could contest from family turf Raghopur, along with Phulpuras, which is currently held by the JD(U).

Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Tejashwi Yadav. (Photo: Tejashwi Yadav/X)

Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Tejashwi Yadav will contest from two seats in the upcoming Bihar assembly election 2025, NDTV reported on Wednesday, citing sources.

The first constituency from where he is expected to contest is his family turf Raghopur, and the other is Phulparas, where the sitting MLA is Sheela Kumari of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's Janata Dal (United).

Raghopur seat has been a JD(U) bastion since 2010.

In the 2020 assembly polls, Tejashwi Yadav won the Raghopur seat by a margin of over 38,000 votes, defeating BJP's Satish Kumar. He debuted from the same seat in 2015.

Raghopur was represented earlier by Tejashwi Yadav's parents, former chief ministers Lalu Prasad and Rabri Devi.

Tejashwi's Plea To Voters

Soon after the Election Commission announced the poll schedule, Yadav took to X to strike an emotional chord with voters.

"Bihar will vote for a change in the coming assembly polls. After 20 years, a grand festival will arrive that will dispel all sorrows and troubles. On that day, every Bihari will join Tejashwi in celebrating victory, because on that day, every Bihari will become Bihar's CM — that is, CHANGE MAKER."

"My dear people of the state. November 14, 2025. We must remember this date. This date will forever shine in golden letters as the beginning of Bihar's bright future, transformation, development, and rise. The bugle of change has been sounded. Now, every Bihari must come together with full dedication, harnessing all their energy, to form a Mahagathbandhan government," Yadav wrote.

Yadav, who served as deputy chief minister in the previous Mahagathbandhan government, asserted that the state’s youth will vote to end unemployment. "Tejashwi will provide government jobs to all. What the NDA government could not achieve in 17 years, we delivered in 17 months. What this government failed to do in 20 years, we will achieve in 20 months," he claimed. "With everyone's support, we will build a better, developed, and new Bihar", he wrote.

Assembly elections in Bihar will be held in two phases — on November 6 and November 11 — and counting scheduled on November 14, Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar announced in Delhi on Monday.

The entire election process will be concluded by November 16.

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