A day after the RJD suffered a heavy drubbing in the Bihar Assembly elections, party president Lalu Prasad’s daughter Rohini Acharya announced that she was quitting politics and disowning her family.
Rohini is the second Yadav sibling to sever ties with the family, after her elder brother Tej Pratap Yadav, who parted ways before the polls. Rohini, a doctor by qualification who later became a homemaker and settled in Singapore with her husband, made the announcement through a cryptic post on her social media handle. “I am quitting politics and I am disowning my family… This is what Sanjay Yadav and Rameez had asked me to do… and I am taking all the blame,” she posted.
The post promptly dragged two names into the spotlight: Sanjay Yadav, RJD’s Rajya Sabha MP and a trusted aide of Tejashwi Yadav, and Rameez, reportedly Tejashwi’s old friend from Uttar Pradesh. Both were unavailable for comment.
Rohini has often found herself in headlines, notably when she donated a kidney to her father a few years ago. She later contested the Saran Lok Sabha seat in 2024 but lost, leading to speculation about growing dissatisfaction within the family.
