Amidst campaigning for Lok Sabha elections, RJD's Tejashwi Yadav gets MRI done for back pain

Patna (Bihar) [India], May 7 (ANI): The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav on the evening of May 6 got an MRI done at Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences (IGIMS) Hospital, Patna due to increasing back pain amidst campaigning for Lok Sabha elections.
According to the reports, Tejashwi Yadav has been suffering from pain in his spinal segment for the last 10 days. However, the pain increased unbearably in the last four days.
Notably, the RJD leader till the third phase of elections held 109 meetings. Despite deteriorating health, Tejashwi Yadav on Monday had participated in a public rally in Bihar's Siwan and Uttar Pradesh's Maharajganj.
The RJD leader took to his official X handle and tweeted, "The people have united to save the country's constitution, reservation and democracy. Addressed a huge public meeting organised in favour of INDIA alliance supported RJD candidate Awadh Bihari Choudhary in Raghunathpur Assembly under Siwan Lok Sabha constituency. NDA will lose, INDIA will win."
Yadav had also addressed the nomination meeting in support of INDIA alliance Congress candidate Akash Singh from Maharajganj parliamentary constituency in Uttar Pradesh.
Notably, the polling is ongoing for 93 Lok Sabha seats across 12 states and union territories in the third phase of the general election on Tuesday.
The states and union territories where the elections are being held in this phase are Assam (4), Bihar (5), Chhattisgarh (7), Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu (2), Goa (2), Gujarat (25), Karnataka (14), Maharashtra (11), Madhya Pradesh (8), Uttar Pradesh (10) and West Bengal (4). The BJP has bagged the Surat seat unopposed.
Prominent leaders to contest in today's poll battle include Union Home Minister Amit Shah, former Madhya Pradesh chief ministers Shivraj Singh Chouhan and Digvijaya Singh, Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya, Samajwadi Party leader Dimple Yadav, and NCP (SP) leader Supriya Sule, among others.
In the 2019 general election, the BJP won 72 of the 93 seats that go to the polls today.
The Lok Sabha elections are being held across seven phases, from April 19 to June 1. The counting is scheduled for June 4. (ANI)