RJD scion Tejashwi Yadav's journey from cricketer to politician

The Bihar Assembly election 2020 has concluded and all exit polls are predicting a Mahagathbandhan majority led by Tejashwi Yadav. If we go by the exit polls it is almost definite that Tejashwi will become the Chief Minister of Bihar for the first time.  

His journey to becoming a politician is rather interesting. Tejashwi was not the one who always harboured the interest of joining RJD supremo and his father Lalu Prasad Yadav as a politician. He in fact pursued his interest in cricket and then moved on to join politics.

Born on November 10, 1989, Tejashwi is the younger son of Lalu Yadav and Rabri Devi, the elder being Tej Pratap. Both his parents have been the chief ministers of Bihar and have between them ruled the state for 15 years. 

To start with Tejashwi Yadav was a cricket fanatic who after playing state-level cricket joined the Delhi Daredevils IPL team. He was a part of the team for a good 5 years, from 2008-2012. However, he did not get an opportunity to play a single match.

Thereafter, in 2015 Tejashwi decided to join his father's party the Rashtriya Janata Dal. Nitish Kumar in 2005 had defeated the RJD to come to power in alliance with the BJP. Since then the RJD struggled to win assembly elections and form a government in Bihar.  

After Tejashwi joined the party he fought from the Raghopur seat in the 2015 Assembly elections and won. The RJD also emerged as the single largest party and formed the government in alliance with Nitish Kumar's JD (U). Tejashwi Yadav was made the deputy chief minister of the state. However, his tenure as Bihar Deputy Chief Minister did not last long as Nitish Kumar ended the alliance with the RJD to form a government with the BJP.

Tejashwi since July 2017 has been serving as the leader of the Opposition in Bihar Assembly.

Tejashwi Yadav has taken the RJD'S reign in his hands after his father Lalu Prasad Yadav was jailed in one of the fodder scam cases. He is also leading the ‘Mahagathbandhan’ and is the chief ministerial candidate of the alliance. 

Just like his father, Tejashwi was also a huge crowd puller in the Bihar Assembly elections 2020.