RJD's Tejashwi Yadav was on Monday elected as Leader of Opposition in Bihar Legislative Assembly. To be recognised as the Leader of the Opposition in any assembly, a party must secure at least 10 per cent of the total strength of the House, which in this case is 25 (10% of 243). Incidentally, the RJD secured 25 seats in the recently concluded Assembly elections.

After trailing by a huge margin in the initial rounds of counting, Tejashwi staged a comeback to defeat BJP’s Satish Kumar by 14,532 votes, retaining the family bastion of Raghopur. However, the nature of Tejashwi's victory did not go without notice.

Senior Congress leader Udit Raj on Monday accused the Election Commission of India and the BJP of manipulating the Bihar results to ensure Tejashwi Yadav’s victory. He argued that th

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