Former cricketer and incumbent Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar, Tejashwi Yadav tied the knot with his long-time friend Rachel Iris on 9 December 2021, in New Delhi. The couple had a lowkey wedding at the farmhouse of his elder sister Misa Bharti. The wedding took place as per the Hindu rituals, with nearly 50 people in attendance. After their wedding, Rachel Iris got a new name 'Rajshree Yadav'. Their wedding was attended by former Uttar Pradesh CM Akhilesh Yadav and his wife Dimple Yadav too. Let's take a look at the wedding pictures of Tejashwi Yadav and Rachel Iris:
There are many politicians who have married outside their religion such as Sushil Kumar Modi who married Jessie George, Syed Shahnawaz Hussain who married Renu, Sachin Pilot who exchanged vows with Sara Abdullah, and now the list adds a new name Tejashwi Yadav who recently married Rachel Iris.
Rachel is a childhood friend of the former cricketer and former deputy chief minister of Bihar, Tejashwi Yadav.
The couple had an intimate wedding, on keeping their wedding private, the leader of the opposition in Bihar said, "Had the Prime Minister and other leaders attended our wedding, we would have been attending to them and the families would not have had the time to know each other,” adding that Covid was indeed another reason to keep the wedding function private.
Tejashwi wore a golden sherwani, Iris had chosen the traditional red colour lehenga on her special day.
All the Yadav siblings and their mother Rabri Devi posed together after the wedding, with the bride and groom.
The couple have known each other for more than 7 years, and have studied together in Delhi Public School in RK Puram. Rachel hails from Haryana and lives in Delhi with her family, as per the media reports.
Reportedly, Tejashwi, one of the most eligible bachelors in Bihar, had received over 44,000 marriage proposals on the contact number he had shared for the people while holding the charge of deputy CM.
