Tej Pratap: West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh assembly elections will be contested by JJD

Tej Pratap: the estranged son of Lalu Prasad and a former minister in Bihar, headed the Janshakti Janata Dal (JJD), which said on Friday that it will run in the next assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal.

Tej Pratap told the media during the start of the party’s Patna membership drive that the party would run candidates in the next assembly elections in both states, with the state committee making the final decision. West Bengal will have its assembly elections in 2026, while Uttar Pradesh will hold elections in February and March of 2027.

“We want to increase the nationwide reach of our party. In answer to a question from the media, he said, “Party will make members outside the state as well.”

JJD ran candidates in 25 seats for the 2025 assembly elections. Tej Pratap Yadav ran and lost from his previous Mahua assembly seat. The party has formed coalitions with a few minor parties before to the Bihar assembly elections.

Tej Pratap said that leaders have been tasked with growing the party and that the official website would be up shortly.

After RJD’s disastrous performance in the assembly elections, he offered support to his sister Rohini Acharya, who had moved out of her parents’ house and declared her intention to leave politics, cutting off contact with her parents and brother Tejashwi Prasad Yadav.

Tej Pratap begged for adequate security protection for his sister Rohini, who had run unsuccessfully from Saran in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. “I don’t feel secure these days either. “I should have adequate security as well,” he continued.