Assam polls: Tejashwi Yadav to kickstart his election campaign by addressing rally at Tinsukia on March 22

PATNA: RJD leader and former Bihar deputy CM Tejashwi Prasad Yadav will kickstart his election campaign for Assam assembly polls by addressing a public rally at Senairam Boarding field in Tinsukia town, the headquarters of Tinsukia district, on March 22.
It will be Tejashwi’s maiden election rally in Assam where the RJD is part of the Congress-led eight-party Grand Alliance. RJD has fielded Hira Devi, a businesswoman from the Hindi speaking community, as its candidate from Tinsukia assembly seat.
“Tejashwi will land at Assam’s Dibrugarh airport around 9.30 am on March 22. From the airport, he will go to Tinsukia via road. He will reach Tinsukia around 11.30 pm,” RJD’s Assam state president Shonarul Shah Mustafa told TOI over the phone on Wednesday.
Mustafa said Tejashwi would address his first election rally in Assam in favour of the party candidate Hira Devi.
“Tejashwi’s rally will be held at Senairam Boarding field in Tinsukia town. Hectic preparations are being made to make his first rally as grand success,” RJD’s Tinsukia unit president Mohan Sah told TOI over the phone on Wednesday.
Sah said, as large number of Hindi and Bhojpuri speaking people from Bihar and eastern Uttar Pradesh resides in the town, Tinsukia is known as ‘mini Bihar’ in the northeastern part of Assam. “People hailing from Bihar are eager to listen the speech of RJD president Lalu Prasad’s son,” Sah said.
RJD candidate Hira Devi is locked in a direct contest with BJP’s sitting MLA Sanjoy Kishan, who is also the Assam’s tea tribe welfare minister. Kishan belongs to the tea tribe community while Hira Devi from the Hindi speaking community which have a strong base in Tinsukia assembly seat.
Earlier, Tejashwi had gone to Guwahati on February 27 to hold talks with leaders of the Congress and the AIUDF on the issue of seat sharing. During his two-day stay at Guwahati, Tejashwi met the Assam Pradesh Congress Committee president Ripun Bora and the AIUDF chief Badruddin Ajmal.
On Tuesday, another prominent leader from Bihar and prominent Bhojpuri singer Manoj Tiwari campaigned in Tinsukia in favour of the BJP nominee Sanjoy Kishan. Tiwari held a road in Tinsukia town and urged the Hindi speaking people to vote in favour of the BJP candidate.