Tejashwi Yadav and wife Rachel Godinho welcomed a daughter on Monday.
Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav welcomed his first child with wife Rachel Godinho, earlier this week. Now, the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader has revealed his daughter's name. Tejashwi Yadav said that the name was picked by his father, former Bihar chief minister Lalu Prasad Yadav.
In a tweet, Tejashwi Yadav thanked everyone for the congratulatory messages and said that his daughter has been named “Katyayani” by his father.
“On the birth of a lovely daughter, all of you increased our happiness manifold by giving your love, blessings and best wishes, for this I express my thanks and gratitude to all of you from the bottom of my heart,” Tejashwi Yadav tweeted in Hindi.
He added, “The girl's grandfather Shri Lalu Prasad Yadav ji has named the daughter "Katyayani".
Tejashwi Yadav, on Monday, announced that he and his wife have welcomed a daughter at a Delhi Hospital. He tweeted a picture of himself holding the newborn and wrote, “God has been pleased and sent a gift in the form of a daughter."
In other photos, the RJD leader was seen with his daughter and wife at the hospital.
Later, Lalu Prasad Yadav and his wife Rabri Devi also met their granddaughter.
In a picture shared by Lalu Prasad Yadav on Twitter, he is seen holding the newborn. “Holding your child's baby for the first time is a wonderful, exciting, happy and mesmerising moment. You feel the future as well as the past and years of love, sacrifice and struggles in this precious, new, little innocent face. Their small eyes show something new,” the tweet read.
In a subsequent post, Lalu Prasad Yadav shared more photos and said, “Sometimes there is a feeling that grandchildren hold a little part of your soul.''
Meanwhile, Tejashwi Yadav's elder brother Tej Pratap Yadav distributed sweets on the Vidhan Sabha premises after he became a “bade papa”.