RJD's Manoj Jha Defends Tejaswi Yadav's Holiday After Bihar Election Loss

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In an exclusive interview, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) MP Manoj Jha addresses the party's defeat in the Bihar Assembly elections. Responding to senior leader Shivanand Tiwari's criticism of Tejaswi Yadav's foreign holiday, Jha argues the leader 'earned the holiday' after 18 months of campaigning. He dismisses rumors of a family rift involving Rohini Acharya and clarifies the 'grapevine' about cash transfer promises. Jha also shares a personal revelation about his absence during the polls due to his father's cancer treatment.

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00:00The murmurs were that it was Sanjay Yadavji who was constantly advising Tejasvi Yadavji on what to do and wasn't the best decision.

00:08Okay, you say it's okay, you know, there's nothing wrong with that.

00:10No, I'll tell you, probably, I don't know whether you have interacted with Tejasvi or not, whether you have interviewed.

00:18It's limited.

00:19I'll tell you, I've worked with many people.

00:22Well, Laluji had a fantastic mind and his way of picking up things or listening to people.

00:34Tejasvi Ji, I have not seen a better listener than him.

00:39I'm yet to see.

00:42Yes, results were not according to our perception.

00:46I myself was awake and, you know, my father was actually being treated for a very advanced stage cancer.

00:56I'm sorry.

00:57A palliative treatment.

00:57I was not there.

00:59But I was watching everything.

01:01We never imagined this results.

01:04I'm telling you very frankly.

01:05So, okay, you're saying, okay, he was not ill-advised.

01:08No, two elections I'm yet to come to terms with.

01:12My Bihar election and Maharashtra election.

01:14Okay, so he was not ill-advised.

01:17Should he have left for a foreign holiday?

01:18No, no.

01:19Priti Ji.

01:21This is a normal, this is a valid question.

01:22No, no.

01:23The people who have voted Tejasvi Ji would want to know that he takes off on a holiday after a loss like this.

01:28I'm responding to your ill-advised or advice.

01:30You know, a leader has to look at multiple things.

01:34He could be picking up three from here, two from here.

01:39At times, these three and two, five could be all productive.

01:44At times, three could not deliver or two could not deliver.

01:49But a leader also takes time in coming to terms.

01:53We are undergoing that process.

01:54I'm assuring you.

01:57And we'll come stronger.

01:58And I repeat what I had told two important people in 2010.

02:04We'll change ourselves.

02:05And that change will not be reinvention of the wheel, number one.

02:10Number two, do we realize for past 18 months, Tejasvi Ji was on roads?

02:17Almost every second night, he was in a district headquarter or commissionery headquarter.

02:24So you're saying he's earned the holiday?

02:26No, I don't.

02:27I mean, these are corporate terms, earning the holiday.

02:30I'm just saying that the results came.

02:34And he'll be there with the people.

02:37He knows what his mandate says.

02:39I'm only quoting Sivanand Tiwari Ji, who says LOP should have been in Bihar.

02:43And through you, I'm assuring him also, that next election is after five years.

02:51We'll be with the people.

02:53And tell you, in their struggle, in their fight.

02:58Now, small thing I wish to share.

03:00This 10,000 rupees, it was through whisper or what we call in propaganda grapevine that two lakh rupees is in the offing for any enterprise.

03:16We'll work towards that.

03:18People of women of Bihar shouldn't be cheated by one time payment.

03:23It's a larger perception, Manojji.

03:25It is leaders, you know, old leaders from, you know, your own party, which is Sivanand Tiwari, saying what you do.

03:31Many would suggest you're being very graceful, but says that you've been completely distanced from the core team, which is Pejas Viji.

03:38You know the reality.

03:39No, I'm just, I'm giving you examples.

03:40And then you have a Rohini Acharya Ji, who actually goes on to say that violence was used against her in her own house.

03:46I'll tell you.

03:47Optics, no?

03:48Important in politics.

03:49Give the family to resolve things on their own.

03:52They'll resolve it.

03:53I know this family.

03:54I know Laluji.

03:55I know Tejas Viji.

03:56I know all the sisters.

03:58They are capable of resolving it on their own.

04:01And very soon it shall be resolved.

04:03There's no succession battle within the family.

04:05I mean, you know.

04:06The propaganda that you speak of the grapevine.

04:09No, no, no.

04:11I'll tell you something which we miss.

04:14We are in a democracy.

04:16Yet our terminologies are drawn from monarchy.

04:19What is succession?

04:21No, a person who has won the election, got his MLA's elected, has gone into a fresh election.

04:27Maybe the success is not at that level.

04:32But at the same time, there is no dispute about it.

04:35And rest for all other things.

04:37People will sit down and resolve.

04:39I think they have the maturity, they have the wisdom, including Sivananji.

04:45His advices are well taken.

RJD's Manoj Jha Defends Tejaswi Yadav's Holiday After Bihar Election Loss

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