'Missing' RJD Leader Tejashwi Yadav Is Back Nearly After A Month; Tweets 'My Dear Bihar! I'm Very Much Here'

The former Bihar Deputy Chief Minister has been missing from public life after RJD's debacle in Lok Sabha elections in May 2019.

Tejashwi also took a dig at his political opponents and media. (Image: Getty)

Patna: After being absconding for over a month, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RDJ) leader Tejshawi Yadav showed up on Twitter on Saturday to explain his absence. Replying to the criticism of his absence by Opposition parties, Tejashwi wrote “My Dear Bihar! I am very much here,” adding that he's undergoing treatment for Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) injury. The former Bihar Deputy Chief Minister has been missing from public life after RJD's debacle in Lok Sabha elections in May 2019. In his series of tweets, Tejashwi also took a dig at his political opponents and media and said that he was amused to see them 'cooking stories'. "Friends! For last few weeks I was busy undergoing treatment for my long delayed ligament and ACL injury. However, I'm amused to see political opponents as well as a section of media cooking up spicy stories," Tejashwi Yadav tweeted this morning. The political heir of Lalu Yadav was criticised by rival parties for not being present in the House when the monsoon session of the Bihar Assembly began on Friday. In one of his tweeted, Tejashwi also talked about the Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) which has killed over 170 children in Bihar in the past 25 days.  "Constantly following up the untimely loss of hundreds of poor kids due to AES. In this tragic moment asked party workers, leaders to visit affected families without getting into Photo-OP and MPs to raise it in Parliament & that's why PM responded. My Dear Bihar!I am very much here," he tweeted.

Friends! For last few weeks I was busy undergoing treatment for my long delayed ligament & ACL injury. However, I’m amused to see political opponents as well as a section of media cooking up spicy stories.

— Tejashwi Yadav (@yadavtejashwi) June 29, 2019

After taking over the reins of his party following imprisonment of his father and RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav, Tejashwi spearheaded his party's campaign for Lok Sabha Elections 2019. However, the election results turned out be a big blow to the young leader as RJD and all its four allies including the Congress drew blank in the stating making it RJD's worst performance in General Elections since 1997.

We are accountable to people who look for a socialist-secular and social justice alternative in us and wish to assure that we are very much here and the fight is on...Recent developments helped me study, scrutinize, analyse and appraise the things in a different way.

— Tejashwi Yadav (@yadavtejashwi) June 29, 2019

After the debacle, Tejashwi Yadav only made a brief appearance in Bihar when the party held a meeting to review the causes that led to its crushing defeat. On Friday, when asked about the whereabouts of Tejashwi, his mother Rabri Devi had snapped at a journalist, saying "to your house". Days ago, poster had come up in Muzaffarpur town of north Bihar declaring a reward of Rs 5,100 for anyone who traces 'missing" RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav.'

Since its birth RJD has been at the centre of poor peoples’ struggle and that position is not lost only because of an electoral defeat. Wish to assure people of Bihar as well as our spirited cadre, we are going to fight with renewed commitment on everyday life issues of poor.

— Tejashwi Yadav (@yadavtejashwi) June 29, 2019

Put up by Tamanna Hashmi, a local social activist, who recently filed a petition in a local court demanding that the Centre and the state government be taken to task for "failing" to contain the outbreak, the gigantic poster has a screaming heading in 'Missing! Missing! Missing!' RJD national vice-president Raghuvansh Prasad Singh had, last week, said, "I do not know where Tejashwi Yadav is. The World Cup is underway and perhaps, being a cricket enthusiast, he is in England to watch the tournament."