I'll Take Oath As Bihar CM On Nov 18, State Will Be No 1 For Development: Tejashwi
Tejashwi said people from all walks of life in Bihar have expressed a strong desire for change.
Published : November 10, 2025 at 4:37 PM IST
Patna: Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader and the chief ministerial candidate of the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA), Tejashwi Prasad Yadav, on Monday questioned the Election Commission (EC) on why majority of the security forces deployed in Bihar Assembly elections were brought from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)–ruled states.
He raised several questions on the EC and also alleged that Union Home Minister Amit Shah stayed put in Patna for several days to compromise the polls with the use of money, muscle, dishonesty and cheating.
Tejashwi further claimed he will take oath as Bihar Chief Minister on November 18 and criminals will be driven out of the state between November 26 and January 26.
Asserting that Bihar is yearning for a change, he said, "We addressed 171 election meetings and there's not a single block where we didn't campaign. People from all walks of life are expressing a strong desire for change."
Taking a dig at BJP's claims of 'double engine government', Tejashwi said, "If the double-engine government had wanted then Bihar could have become the number one state in 20 years. During these years, the highest number of youth from Bihar migrated. Now, people of Bihar do not want to go abroad for jobs; they want to stay in Bihar and work. Therefore, people want a government focused on industry, education, income, and irrigation in Bihar".
"After November 14, Bihar will be made the number one state in the country, with food processing units, industries, education, medical care, employment, and proper irrigation facilities, super-specialty hospitals, educational cities, and IT hubs. No Bihari will need to go to another city," Tejashwi said.
The RJD leader further said, "For 20 years, Bihar has been in the headlines only because of its backwardness and now it will be at the no 1 state for development. We repeatedly asked the ruling parties to name one work in which their government excelled, but no one had an answer. After November 14, Bihar's successes will be counted and it will be counted among the top states," he added.
On deployment of police personnel from BJP-ruled states, he said, “I am presenting an interesting data. A total of 208 companies of the police forces or 68 percent of total police forces deployed in the Bihar polls came from the BJP-ruled states. They were not called from non-BJP ruled states like West Bengal, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu or Kerala."
In fact, Bengal and Jharkhand are our neighbouring states, yet the police personnel were not called from there. This deployment has been imbalanced. It raises a big question on the EC,” he added.
Tejashwi was talking to media persons in the presence of his elder sister and Patliputra MP Misa Bharti, Rajya Sabha member and national spokesperson Manoj Kumar Jha, party’s national general secretary Abdul Bari Siddiqui and other leaders.
He asserted that Uttar Pradesh led the table with 40 companies of police forces followed by Gujarat 27, Maharashtra 25, Madhya Pradesh 23, Chhattisgarh, Assam and Nagaland 15 each, and Rajasthan with 10 companies.
Mizoram and Haryana sent eight companies each, Meghalaya contributed seven, Goa gave six, Tripura sent five and Uttarakhand chipped in with four companies for safety, security, vigilance during the Bihar elections, and to ensure free and fair voting.
“Police personnel could be brought from far away states like Meghalaya, Tripura, Nagaland and Gujarat, but not from West Bengal and Jharkhand. Previously Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) were deployed to ensure free and fair elections,” the RJD leader further added.
Relating the issue of several visits and stays of Shah in Patna to the security aspect of the polls, Tejashwi said, “He (Shah) is staying put in Patna for election related work, which is a work of dishonesty. He is using all money and muscle power, as well as, dishonest means in the polls.
The RJD leader insinuated that Shah was giving directions to senior and range-level officers engaged in monitoring the polls where to disturb voting and where to pick-up the people and shut them up.
“This points to the panic in the NDA camp. I want to tell the officers to work fearlessly and without any prejudice because the sharp gaze of the public was on them,” Tejashwi added.
Pointing out that the CCTV cameras of the strong rooms in which electronic voting machines (EVMs) are kept in different districts keep shutting down frequently, Tejashwi asserted that though the RJD workers are alert, yet the EC should reply to this.
The RJD leader added that the EC was yet to make public the gender specific data of voting in the first phase of polls conducted on November 6.
Expressing concern over the delay in the era of computers and artificial intelligence, Tejashwi asserted that at this rate the people would not come to know about the number of men and women who voted, even on the day of the counting of votes.
The RJD leader slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi for using slangs pertaining to weapons and ammunition to defame Bihar across the world and asked which web-series was he watching to use such kind of words.
“The Prime Minister should be ashamed that his words and actions do not match. He cannot see the corruption of BJP leaders and ministers – Samrat Choudhary, Mangal Pandey, Dilip Jaiswal and others. He shares dais with people like Hulas Pandey, Anand Mohan, Rajballabh Yadav, and others whom he thinks to be saints. He meets the main accused of the Srijan scam,” Tejashwi said.
The RJD leader said that Modi had no vision or plan for the development of Bihar, and asserted that his government would ensure the all-round and inclusive development of the state.
“The people who came to my rallies wanted a change in the state. They have cast their votes on this basis. They are going to create history and bring the government that will provide jobs, education, health services, and irrigation facilities to them,” Tejashwi said.
Joining the issue with Tejashwi, the EC said that the overall gender ratio in the voter turnout is given at the time of the final polling data.
With regard to the deployment of police forces, the EC said that 80 percent of the deployed security personnel were from the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) and only 20 percent were deployed from the armed police forces from different states as per their availability.
"The state police forces have been taken from 24 different states, including Jharkhand, Telengana, Kerala, Punjab, HP, karnataka. The observers have been deployed proportionately from all states irrespective of the ruling party in the respective state," and EC official said.
"The CCTVs have been functioning at all strong rooms. Wherever any malfunctioning has come to notice it has been promptly rectified," the official added.
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