Patna: Tejashwi Yadav walked into the 2025 Bihar elections with a lot riding on his shoulders. People expected a fight, maybe even a win. Instead, the RJD crashed below 40 seats. That’s a big drop from 2020, when the party finished as the largest with 75 seats. The message is pretty clear: Bihar’s voters still aren’t ready to hand him the chief minister’s chair. The slide raises tough questions about how he’s running his campaign and whether people really trust his leadership.

Job-Centric Messaging Failed to Resonate

Tejashwi made jobs and unemployment the heart of his pitch—just like he did five years ago. Back then, it worked. This time, not so much. The problem wasn’t the issue itself. People in Bihar still care about jobs. But they just didn’t buy that Tejashwi had real answers. His

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