New Delhi: Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav’s endorsement as the Mahagathbandhan’s Chief Ministerial face by his allies is more a result of poll equation and political compulsion than anything else.

The main constituents of the alliance – the RJD, Congress, and the Left parties – have been political rivals in the state, even engineering an erosion in the mass base of the other.

In fact, the Left constituents were also not under one umbrella earlier, with the Communist Party of India and the Communist Party of India (Marxist) part of the Left Front, with some smaller constituents. The Indian People’s Front (IPF) and the Marxist Coordination Committee (MCC) represented the political arms for what is now termed as Maoists or ultra-Left.

However, the Dipankar Bhattacharya-l

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