Tejashwi provides relief to poor at night shelters

Patna: RJD leader and deputy chief minister Tejashwi Yadav on Tuesday night visited various localities of the state capital to know the condition of the homeless and provide relief to them. This was the first such visit by Tejashwi shortly after being projected as Mahagathbandhan’s CM face for 2025 Bihar assembly polls and analysts say this could be an attempt to cultivate his fairly new image.
Accompanied by officials, Tejashwi traversed through various streets of Patna on Tuesday night . He came across many families sleeping along the pavements, under the bridges, curled up on their paddle rickshaws and in the makeshift government-run ‘Raen Baseras’ (shelter houses) and provided immediate relief to them. He offered them blankets and also promised to solve their other problems.
Tejashwi’s first stoppage was at a ‘Raen Basera’ near Patna secretariat where he met the people sleeping inside. While passing through the Patna streets, he saw a group of poor women sleeping with their children under the flyover on Birchand Patel Road and distributed woolen clothes to them with the promise to arrange for a temporary shelter exclusively for women. Several officials including PMC Commissioner Animesh Kumar Parashar had accompanied Tejashwi.
The scene at the Gandhi Maidan was even more pathetic with the group of rickshaw-pullers curled up on their rickshaws and trying to beat the cold with tattered clothes. TV footages showed Tejashwi waking up the rickshaw pullers and inquiring from them why they were not taking shelter at the government-run ‘Raen Baseras’ to which they replied someone could steal their rickshaws if they slept inside the shelter home.
“The poor have always reposed faith in us and so I have come to personally know about their problems,” Tejashwi told the newsmen, adding, “Ye garibon ki sarkar hai, garibon ke liye kam kar rahe hain”.