Patna, Oct 23 (UNI) Former union Minister and senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Ravi Shankar Prasad today lashed out at the Grand Alliance (GA) for announcing Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejaswi Yadav as its chief ministerial candidate for the Bihar Assembly elections and termed the decision as “pure political theatrics.”

Addressing a press conference in Patna, Prasad said the GA had no real prospect of winning power in Bihar, and hence was resorting to symbolic announcements. He said that the GA itself knows that it has no future as its comeback to the power is impossible and added that this is why they are making hollow declarations. “Everyone in Bihar understands this drama,” he remarked.

Calling the GA a “fragile and confused alliance,” Prasad said Tejaswi Yadav’s bac

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