Just days before the polling for the first phase of the Bihar Assembly election, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav on Monday, 26 October, held up a garland of onions in a gesture to ridicule the BJP-led central government.
"The common man is reeling under back-breaking inflation, corruption and unemployment. Work and business are shut. The farmers, workers, youth and traders are struggling to get food. The BJP government has killed the small businessmen. When there was inflation, these people (BJP) used to roam around wearing onion garlands, now we're giving them this (garland)," Yadav said in a tweet in Hindi.