Overview

• Tejashwi Yadav’s Bihar Adhikar Yatra, launched on 16 September, is covering districts such as Madhepura, Saharsa and Samastipur with rallies focused on unemployment, price rise, migration, corruption and law and order.
• He has largely dropped the Special Intensive Revision voter‑list allegations from his speeches, using the tour to push a governance‑first pitch and present himself as the Opposition’s alternative to Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.
• Responding to Amit Shah’s assertion that the NDA majority would be so strong he would not dare contest, Yadav called it a “hollow threat” and accused the BJP of communal politics and central control over Bihar.
• The RJD says the route targets areas left out of Rahul Gandhi’s earlier Voter Adhikar Yatra and is scheduled to conclude on 20 September, though party sources indicate an extension to additional parts of the state is possible.
• Political observers see the solo push as a bid to assert leadership during seat‑sharing talks, while BJP and JD(U) leaders counter that the tour lacks mass traction and question his credibility on jobs and the land‑for‑jobs case.