India, Oct. 6 -- Tejashwi Yadav, chairman of Bihar's Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) bloc's coordination committee, including Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), Congress, Left parties, Vikassheel Insaan Party (VIP), Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) and Rashtriya Lok Janshakti Party (RLJP), is key to the opposition's performance in the upcoming Bihar assembly polls.

Son of RJD chief Lalu Prasad and former CM Rabri Devi, Tejashwi swapped a brief cricketing stint with Delhi Daredevils and India's U-19 team for politics in 2013, having left school after Class 9.

Elected from Raghopur in 2015, he became Bihar's youngest deputy chief minister at 26 in the Mahagathbandhan (MGB) government, a role he briefly reprised in 2022 until...