SEE PICS: RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav's cycle rally against Nitish govt in Bihar
The march was held to protest incidents of sexual exploitation of women and girls in Bihar. However, it got cancelled midway due to heavy rains that continued to lash the state for the second day. (Twitter/Tejashwi Yadav)
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View In AppEarlier, the Yadav went to Bodh Gaya and paid obeisance to Lord Buddha at the Maha Bodhi Temple before embarking on his 115-km-long cycle rally. (Twitter/Tejashwi Yadav)
Scores of party supporters, on bicycles, accompanied the RJD leader who cycled through the streets of Gaya braving the downpour. (Twitter/Tejashwi Yadav)
Senior RJD leader Tejashwi Prasad Yadav had earlier said that his party would launch a three-day “cycle march” from Gaya to Patna on July 28 to expose the Nitish Kumar government’s alleged failures. (Twitter/Tejashwi Yadav)
Yadav took to Twitter to inform about the cancelled march and said, I am cancelling the remaining cycle yatra because of heavy rain, bad weather and a forecast of lightning and thunderstorm in the state over the next 2 days. (Twitter/Tejashwi Yadav)
Yadav pressed an attacked on Nitish Kumar government in Bihar over the Muzaffarpur shelter home scandal and slammed the Chief Minister for maintaining a criminal silence over the issue on Saturday. (Twitter/Tejashwi Yadav)
The cycle yatra, which was originally scheduled to cover 100 kilometres between Bodh Gaya and Patna over three days, was called off after covering a distance of 35 km due to incessant rain. (Twitter/Tejashwi Yadav)
RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav on Saturday started a 100-km-long cycle march titled NDA Bhagao Beti Bachao from Bodhgaya to Patna. (Twitter/Tejashwi Yadav)
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