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As the final announcement on the name of Bihar's next Chief Minister is yet to be made, the Rashtriya Janta Dal has elected its prime opponent in the Assembly, the Leader of the Opposition. The RJD has named its leader, Tejashwi Yadav, the MLA-elect from Raghopur, as the LoP.

Tejashwi Yadav has already served as the LoP in the 17th Bihar Assembly. In the recently concluded election, he was the CM candidate of the Mahagathbandhan. However, his party, RJD, along with the alliance, suffered a humiliating defeat at the hands of the BJP-led NDA.

His party not only lost the status of being the single-largest party of Bihar to the BJP, but also barely managed to keep itself in a position to get the LoP status.

In the Bihar Assembly, there are  243 seats, and according to the rules, the prime opposition party needs to have at least 10 per cent seats to make an LoP. As RJD is the biggest opposition party and has only 25 seats, it is the only faction that can claim the position. 

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The BJP emerged as the single largest party with 89 seats, followed by JDU, which got 85 seats. Chirag Paswan's LJP-RV won 19 seats. The Mahagathbandhan collectively won 35 seats.

Opposition's decision to elect Tejashwi Yadav as LoP comes amid the family feud within the former Bihar CM Lalu Yadav's family. Lalu Yadav's daughter Rohini Acharya has accused her brother Tejashwi Yadav of "humiliating and throwing her out of the house"

"I have no family. You can go and ask this to Sanjay Yadav, Rameez, and Tejashwi Yadav. They are the ones who threw me out of the family," Rohini Acharya told reporters in her first reaction after being asked about her 'shocking' announcement to quit politics.

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Later, she posted an emotional post on X, saying that she was "humiliated," "abused," and even faced the threat of being hit with a slipper. 

"Yesterday, a daughter, a sister, a married woman, a mother was humiliated, abuses were hurled, shoes were raised to kill her... I didn't compromise on my self-respect, didn't give up on truth... just because of this, I had to face insults. Yesterday, a daughter left her crying parents and siblings due to helplessness... she was forced to leave her parental home... she was made an orphan... I pray that none of you ever have to walk my path, and no house should have a daughter-sister like Rohini," she wrote.

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