Lalu Yadav Gives Party Leaders Poll Symbols, Recalled After Tejashwi Returns | Read

In a surprise late-night development that has created a flutter in Bihar's political circles, leaders of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), who were given party symbols for the Assembly polls yesterday evening, were recalled late at night and asked to return the symbols.

Party patriarch Lalu Prasad Yadav, who returned from Delhi yesterday, reached home to find a crowd of poll ticket aspirants outside the gates. Then some of the aspirants, who apparently received calls from the party leadership, went inside. Minutes later, they emerged with yellow envelopes in their hands. The envelope, it is learnt, contained documents endorsing the candidate as the party's poll pick.