Tej Pratap Yadav, who ran from the Mahua seat unsuccessfully in the Bihar Assembly polls 2025, has now entered the family drama going on in the household of the state's Opposition leader. After Rohini Acharya, elder sister of Tejashwi Yadav, who was the Chief Minister face of the Mahagathbandhan, openly severed ties with her family citing "humiliation" and "abuse", Tej Pratap openly sided with his elder sister.
Reacting to the developments online, the former state Environment Minister said, “Anyone who insults our sister will face Lord Krishna’s Sudarshan Chakra. I tolerated what happened to me. But the insult inflicted on my sister is unbearable under any circumstance," he reportedly added.
Tej Pratap Yadav claimed that whatever "Rohini Didi" is saying is absolutely right from her perspective, Amar Ujala said in a report. “As a mother, as a woman, and as a sister, the admirable work she has done is something that very few daughters, sisters, or mothers could do. For us and for all women, she is worthy of deep respect, and she will always be remembered. This will become history, and my sister’s name will be written in golden letters in the pages of history,” Tej Pratap was added as saying.
Tej Pratap has contested from Mahua against the RJD, and it is said that Acharya had tried to convince Tejashwi not to field a candidate against his elder brother. The two brothers have not had the best relationship for some time, and Tej Pratap's relationship with his father has also been strained. Lalu's decision to project his younger son as his successor is said to be among the reasons for Tej Pratap's displeasure. He often makes public statements against Tejashwi's close aides, sometimes even against the Opposition leader himself, which has made the issues more complicated.
What is going on in the Lalu household?
Rohini Acharya had first spoken about her humiliation yesterday at the airport. She said that she has separated herself from her family (maayka) and from the RJD. On Sunday, she charged the lieutenants of her younger brother Tejashwi Yadav with accusing her of donating a "bad" kidney to her father, "in exchange for crores of rupees and a party ticket".
Acharya vented her spleen in a couple of posts on X, a day after she had announced that she was "quitting politics and disowning my family", and alleged that she had been "driven out of my home" by Tejashwi, Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Yadav, and Rameez, a close friend since her brother's cricketing days.
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"Yesterday abuses were heaped on me and I was accused of donating my bad kidney to my father, and that too in exchange for crores of rupees and a party ticket", said Acharya, who had contested the Saran Lok Sabha seat in last year's general elections.
In an obvious dig at Tejashwi and Sanjay Yadav, she said, "I would tell all married women never to do anything to save their parents, and if they have a brother, they should ask him to donate his own kidney or ask his Haryanvi friend to do so".
"I committed a sin by donating my kidney without seeking the approval of my husband or in-laws or thinking of my three children... may no daughter meet the fate of Rohini", added Acharya, who had been based in Singapore, where her father underwent a kidney transplant three years ago.
In another post, she alleged that despite being "a married woman and a mother", abuses were hurled at her and "a slipper was picked up to hurl at me," which led her to "leave my home, amid sobs, abandoning my parents and sisters".
"I have been made an orphan. May no household give birth to a daughter and a sister with a fate like that of Rohini", she added.
On Saturday, while boarding a flight for Delhi, Acharya had hinted before journalists that things turned sour when she insisted that accountability be fixed for the party's debacle in the recently held polls, in which the RJD won only 25 seats of the 243-strong Bihar assembly.