Bihar Elections: Lalu's son Tej Pratap files nomination from Hasanpur

RJD leader Tej Pratap Yadav filed his nomination from the Hasanpur assembly seat in Samastipur district. Tej Pratap will face the incumbent JDU MLA Raj Kumar Ray in Hasanpur.

Patna: Tej Pratap Yadav, Bihar's former health minister and the elder son of Lalu Prasad, on Tuesday filed his nomination from the Hasanpur assembly seat in Samastipur district. Tej Pratap's younger brother Tejashwi Yadav also reached Samastipur from Patna in a helicopter to join him for his nomination filing.

While the brothers reached Sub Divisional Office in Rosera to submit the papers, hundreds of RJD workers and supporters thronged the premises them flouting social distancing norms.

In 2015, Tej Pratap had won the Bihar elections from Mahua assembly constituency in Vaishali district.

While Tej Pratap will face incumbent JDU MLA Raj Kumar Ray in Hasanpur, Tejashwi is pitted against BJP's Satish Kumar who had trounced his mother Rabri Devi in Sonepur district in 2010.

Hasanpur, a Yadav stronghold, will go to polls in the second phase of assembly elections on November 3.