Lalu Yadav's daughter quits politics, severs ties with family
Rohini Acharya, a doctor by profession, is a former member of the Lalu Yadav-led RJD. She had contested the 2024 Lok Sabha elections from Bihar's Saran constituency, but lost.
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My article in Telugu daily -- Eenadu
headline -- 'Man of the Match - Nitish Kumar'
"I’m quitting politics, and I’m disowning my family. This is what Sanjay Yadav and Rameez had asked me to do, and I’m taking all the blame," Dr Rohini Acharya tweeted.
The BJP reacted saying --
"The daughter who donated her kidney to Lalu Yadav and saved his life is now being pushed out of both the family and the party. One can only imagine how helpless and hurt she must be feeling today. After the brother was cast out, now the sister faces the same fate," Bihar BJP leader Neeraj Kumar said.
"The entire family and the RJD seem headed toward collapse, consumed by internal betrayal and the influence of those accused of exploiting Bihar," he added.
Man of the Year – Nitish has a Dream Run
Nirendra Dev
History belongs to dreamers. But Nitish Kumar has sort of changed the effect of the saying. He has given a spin and made it somewhat like – Dream now belongs to history.
He had ousted the RJD dispensation in Bihar in 2005 pledging to rescue the state from Jungle Raj. Two decades gone – he is at the helm strong politically sharing power with two mercurial parties the BJP and the RJD on different occasions and is still popular to his people.
A jubilant BJP says – “now development is the identity and not the Jungle Raj”.
The opposition called him ‘poltu ram (habitual defector)’; but the voters have rewarded him once again. They have shown faith in him and his newly developed Developmental Agenda with the old Su-sashan (Lawful Governance) started was started in November 2005.
He is easily the Man of the Match or even the Man of the Year in Indian polity as he probably led the charge of an election battle for the last time.
Of course Narenda Modi is also a crucial claimant be the Man of the Year - 2025.
Born on March 1, 1951; he is now 75 and has reportedly started having some health issues.
The Bihar mandate on Friday, Nov 14th, tells the saga that the Bihar voters did not buy the line that just to reject the duo of Modi-Shah at the national level; the voters would repose faith in the leadership of Lalu Prasad’s son Tejashwi Yadav.
The results in the ultimate – as RJD’s seat tally has dropped significantly shows – the people of all ages and especially women voted overwhelmingly for JD-U-led NDA combine. Another significant factor is that the caste calculation too has gone well for the NDA.
LJP (Ram Vilas) leader Chirag Paswan is a major Dalit face that has emerged in this year’s polls and he could be soon presented as a ‘Bahujan leader’.
Observers and political detractors would often argue that Nitish Kumar, though used to make all attempts to present himself as a leader above all castes, is identified with Kurmis. This community accounts for about 6 per cent of the electorate in Bihar as against 14 per cent by Yadavs. But the mandate shows the caste synthesis worked in favour of NDA giving it such a landslide win.
Moreover; the day a prominent Muslim leader Shakeel Ahmed quit Congress party (on Nov 11 shortly after the polls); it was clear a landslide win was waiting Nitish Kumar.
The Congress, which contested 61 seats, was organisationally weak and the leadership was directionless. It may not be wrong to argue that as against performing and self-made leaders such as Narendra Modi and Nitish Kumar; the people of Bihar have rejected nepo/dynastic politics.
It's a lesson parents-politicians like Lalu Prasad and Sonia Gandhi refuse to learn both in public life and in private.
There were other illustration of poll mismanagement by Congress and RJD. After Rahul Gandhi spoke about Haryana 'vote chori' on the eve of polling in Bihar; many started writing off the opposition chances. It appeared the grand old party was not taking the battle of Bihar seriously. Even Tejashwi Yadav did not react enthusiastically to Rahul’s much hyped media conference.
Days before that; the Congress leader had visited Columbia and a few weeks earlier the Congress was even reluctant to consider Tejashwi Yadav as the chief ministerial face.
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