Maithili Thakur — a name set to resonate in the high-stakes Bihar Legislative Assembly election. Various reports said that she will be contesting from her home constituency Madhubani on BJP ticket. The rumours got backing after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in-charge for Bihar Vinod Tawde shared pictures of a meeting with Maithili and her father with Union Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai in New Delhi.

Sharing the pictures on social media platform X (formerly Twitter), Tawde addressed Maithili as “Bihar’s daughter” and welcomed her back in the state.

Taking a dig at the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), Tawde wrote, “The families that left Bihar after Lalu came into power in 1995, the daughter of that family, the renowned singer Maithili Thakur ji, wants to return to Bihar seeing th

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