Tejashwi Yadav

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Tejashwi Yadav is an Indian Politician and the political heir of Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) supremo, Lalu Prasad Yadav. He is the youngest of the nine children of Lalu Yadav.Four months after Tejashwis birth in November 1989, his father, Lalu Yadav, was sworn in as the CM of Bihar for the first time.Tejashwi did his schooling from Delhi. A cricket enthusiast, Tejasvi Yadav passed class 8th and then dropped out of school to focus on making a career in cricket.He took part in a number of cricket tournaments in his schooling days. Also, he was the captain of his school cricket team. He made his under-15 debut for Delhis cricket team under the captaincy of Virat Kohli. [14]Business Standard After playing a few seasons for Delhi, he was selected in the Delhis under-19 cricket squad. Long-haired young Tejashwi Yadav (second from right in red shirt) along with Virat Kohli (second from left) and his cricket mates.Tejashwi Yadav, a middle-order right-handed batsman, was a part of the Delhi Daredevils squad from 2009 to 2012; however, he could never get a place in the teams playing eleven. A picture of long-haired Tejashwi Yadav from the time when he was a part of the Delhi Daredevils squad.Tejashwi Yadav played 7 domestic matches in his entire cricket career. In those seven matches, he scored just 37 runs and took one wicket. [15]ESPN CricInfo.Understanding that his cricket career was not taking off, Tejashwi Yadav decided to venture into politics. In 2010, he campaigned for his father, Lalu Yadav, for the first time, ahead of the 2010 Bihar Assembly poll.In 2015, at the age of 26, Tejashwi Yadav successfully contested and won his first election from the Raghopur Assembly constituency on the ticket of Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD). In the election, RJD who was a part of Mahagathbandhan (RJD-INC-JDU) won 80 seats out of 243 and emerged as the single largest party in Bihar. Thereby, Tejashwi was appointed as the Deputy CM of Bihar. He received the public works, forestry, and environment department in the cabinet of CM Nitish Kumar.In 2016, Tejashwi Yadav introduced a WhatsApp number on which the public could send in their complaints related to damaged roads in their locality. The engineer who monitored the messages on the contact number said, Out of 47,000 messages received on the number, nearly 44,000 were personal messages proposing marriage to Tejashwi Yadav. Only 3,000 messages were related to road repair. The young women mistook the number as Tejaswis own and sent the personal messages. Here is what Tejashwi had to say about it,.He served as the Deputy CM of Bihar from 2015 to 2017. He was the youngest ever person to have chaired the post of a deputy CM.