Marriage can wait, politics cannot, says Tejashwi

Pat na: marriage can wait but politics can not, says bi ha r’ s 28- year-old leader of opposition Tejaswi Yadav, who says he will marry after the 2019 general elections.

“I will marry only after the Lok Sabha polls,” the former Deputy Chief Minister said on Sunday night here after arriving from ran chi where heme this ailing father and RJD leader Lalu Prasad.

Lalu Prasad is undergoing treatment at a Ranchi hospital after being jailed in a multi-crore fodder scam.

Tejashwi Yadav, the younger son of Lalu Prasad, said he will marry a girl of his parents’ choice. “I will prefer an arranged marriage.” According to him, he was getting marriage proposals from within Bihar and beyond.

Two years ago, when he was the Deputy Chief Minister, he reportedly received 44,000 marriage proposals on Whatsapp.

Tejaswi’s elder brother Tej Pratap Yadav, a former Bihar Health Minister, married former Minister and RJD leader Chandrika Rai’s daughter Aishwarita Rai in May this year.

All his seven sisters including Misa Bharti, a Rajya Sabha member, are married.

Tejashwi assailed Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi for remarking that criminals should keep off crime during ‘pitri-paksh’ when Hindus pay homage to ancestors through food offerings in Gaya, a holy town in the state.

“Sushil Modi is shamelessly begging before criminals not to commit any crime in the next 15 days. Does he mean that later in the festive season they are free to do whatever they would like to do?” asked Tejashwi, RJD leader and former Deputy Chief Minister.