Tejashwi Yadav is an Indian politician from the state of Bihar. He is the youngest of nine children of Indian politician Lalu Yadav.
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Tejashwi Yadav was born on Thursday, 9 November 1989 (age 33 years; as of 2022) in Gopalganj, Bihar. His full name is Tejashwi Prasad Yadav. It also bears the name of Tarun. His zodiac sign is Sagittarius. Tejashwi spent the first few years of his schooling in Patna and then went to Delhi for further studies. He studied at Delhi Public School in Hemant Vihar till class five and then class eight at DPS, RK Puram. Although Tejashvi was average in academics, he was always at the forefront when it came to sports and extracurricular activities. He was attracted to cricket quite early in his childhood. He was a member of the school cricket team and represented the team in various tournaments. An avid cricketer, Tejashwi Yadav dropped out of school in ninth grade to pursue a full-time career in cricket. After that, he represented the Delhi state cricket team in various tournaments and also played a Ranji Trophy season for Jharkhand. After failing to make a mark in cricket, Tejashwi Yadav quit the sport and decided to follow in his father’s footsteps and enter politics.
Physical appearance
Height (approx): 5′6″
Eye Color: Black
Hair color: black
family and caste
Tejashvi Yadav was born in a Shudra family.
parents and siblings
Tejashwi Yadav was born to Lalu Yadav and Rabri Devi. Both his parents jointly served as the Chief Minister of Bihar in various capacities for about 15 years. He is the youngest of Lalu Yadav’s nine children. She has an elder brother, Tej Pratap Yadav (politician) and seven sisters, Misa Bharti (politician), Rohini Acharya, Chanda Singh, Ragini Yadav, Hema Yadav, Anushka Rao and Raj Laxmi.
Tejashwi Yadav with his mother Rabri Devi at their residence in Patna
Tejashwi Yadav with his parents Lalu Yadav and Rabri Devi
Tejashwi Yadav with his elder brother Tej Pratap Yadav
Pictured: From left, Tej Pratap Yadav, Misa Yadav, Rabri Devi and Tejashwi Yadav
Tejashwi Yadav with sisters
wife and children
On 9 December 2021, he married his long-time girlfriend, Delhi-based Rachel Godinho, now known as Rajeshwari Yadav in Sainik Farms, Delhi.
Tejashwi Yadav’s wedding photo
On March 27, 2023, Tejashwi and Rachel Godinho were blessed with a baby girl, Katiani; The name was chosen by Lalu Prasad Yadav.
Relationships/affairs
Before marrying Rachel Godinho on December 9, 2021, he dated her for almost seven years.
Cricket career
Playing for the Delhi Under-19 team, Tejashwi was signed by Delhi Daredevils ahead of the 2009 IPL. However, not a single match was allowed to be played in all the four seasons of the IPL.
A picture of Tejashwi Yadav with long hair from when he was part of the Delhi Daredevils squad
He played several domestic cricket matches for Jharkhand in Ranji Trophy 2009, Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2009 and Vijay Hazare Trophy 2010. In the seven domestic matches Tejashwi played in his entire cricket career, he scored only 37 runs and took one wicket. On 16 February 2010, Tejashwi played his last professional cricket match played between Jharkhand and Tripura in Cuttack.
Political career
After Tejashvi realized that he had minimal chances of making a successful career in cricket, politics was probably the next possible stop for him. He made his first public address in 2010, campaigning for the RJD ahead of the 2010 Bihar Legislative Assembly elections. In the 2015 Bihar Assembly elections, Tejashwi, at the age of 26, successfully contested and won his first constituency from Raghopur constituency. His party, the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), won 81 seats and formed a coalition with the Janata Dal (United), which won 70 seats. After the formation of the RJD-JDU coalition government in Bihar in 2015, Tejashwi Yadav was sworn in as the Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar.
In 2017, the CBI filed a land-for-hotel scam case against Tejashwi Yadav and his family members, including father Lalu Yadav and mother Rabri Devi. The case led to the fall of the RJD-JDU coalition government in 2017, as the JD(U) withdrew its support from the RJD and formed a new government with the BJP in Bihar. Tejashwi served as the Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar from November 2015 to July 2017. He accused the BJP government at the Center of playing vendetta politics by implicating his name in a corruption case dating back to 2004.
They are instigating the cases of 2004 against me. How could I be a criminal at the age of 13-14, I didn’t even have a mustache then!”
At the age of 27, Tejashwi Yadav became India’s youngest leader of the opposition. He went on to serve as the Leader of the Opposition in the Bihar Legislative Assembly from 2017 to 2020. In Bihar Assembly Election 2020, Tejashwi Yadav won from Raghopur Assembly seat in Bihar by 38000 votes. His party, the RJD, emerged as one of the largest parties in the state; However, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) retained power by winning a majority of seats. On 10 August 2022, he was sworn in as the Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar for the second time.
confrontations
- On New Year’s Eve 2008, Tejashwi Yadav and his brother Tej Pratap Yadav were allegedly beaten up by some anonymous men in Delhi for teasing a girl at a party.
- On 16 April 2017, the Central Bureau of Investigation filed a chargesheet against Tejashwi Yadav, Lalu Yadav and Rabri Yadav for corruption in awarding maintenance contracts to two IRCTC hotels to a private firm. The charges against them included criminal conspiracy (120-B), cheating (420) and corruption under the IPC. Later, a Delhi court granted bail to all three of them in the case.
- On 5 October 2020, an FIR was lodged against Tejashwi Yadav, his brother Tej Pratap Yadav and four others accused of murdering former RJD leader Shakti Malik.
- According to the data shared by the open data deposit platform My Neta, Tejashvili has 11 criminal cases against him; However, none of them have been convicted.
- On 11 March 2023, the CBI summoned him for questioning in the Land for Work case. In the agency, he was summoned to the case for the second time; Before that, he was summoned by the agency on February 4, 2023. According to the CBI, there were irregularities in the appointment of Group D posts in various zones of the Indian Railways from 2004 to 2009, and posts were given to persons in exchange for land by unknown civil servants. On 3 July 2023, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) filed a charge sheet in a Delhi court against Tejashwi, as well as his parents Lalu Yadav and Rabri Devi, along with 14 others. The charge sheet related to “Land for Work Fraud”.
Address
#208, Kautilya Nagar, MP MLA Colony, PO- BV College, Patna
Facts/Trivia
- While serving as the Minister of the Road Construction Department in Bihar, Tejashwi introduced a WhatsApp number where the general public could send complaints about damaged roads in their locality. According to an executive engineer who monitored WhatsApp messages, the number received 47,000 messages on WhatsApp, of which 44,000 were from girls proposing marriage to Tejashwi Yadav.
- According to reports, Tejashwi made his Under-15 cricket debut in Delhi under Virat Kohli’s captaincy.
Long-haired youngster Tejashwi Yadav (second from right in red shirt) with Virat Kohli (second from left) and his cricket buddies
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