RJD leader and former Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar
Tejashwi Yadav was, on Thursday, elected as the leader of the Grand Alliance
legislature party and hit out at the NDA at the same time, claiming it to be
winning the assembly elections through ‘deceit’, PTI reported.

Mocking Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, whose party Janata Dal (United)
has slipped to the third position in terms of acquired seats, Yadav wondered
whether the latter would “heed his conscience and give up his attachment to the
chair”.

Yadav further claimed that people’s mandate was for a change
but it was manipulated.

“It was undoubtedly a mandate for change. The NDA won by
dhan, bal and chhal (money, muscle power and deceit),” he claimed.

Quoting election data, Yadav claimed that the NDA got only
12,270 votes more than the Grand Alliance.

“How can it convert into their victory in 15 more seats than
us? We believe that had the counting of votes been fair, we would have returned
with a tally of more than 130 setas,” he said. Yadav-led Grand Alliance got 110
seats, 12 less than 122 – the magic figure required to form a government in the
state, whereas, the NDA managed to get 125.

Former Deputy Chief Minister and one of the major faces behind
the young vote bank’s pull in the state towards the RJD-led Grand Alliance,
Yadav alleged that polling officials had acted like a ‘prakoshth’ (cell) of the
BJP, and did not rule out taking legal action if the Election Commission fails
to satisfactorily address the concerns.