The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) suffered a setback on Saturday as President Lalu Prasad Yadav’s daughter Rohini Acharya said she was “quitting politics” and severing ties with her family. This came a day after the RJD-led Mahagathbandhan suffered a bruising defeat in the Bihar Assembly polls. The opposition alliance managed to win only 35 seats in the 243-seat state Assembly.
“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 wrote in an X post.
Sanjay Yadav is the Rajya Sabha MP from the RJD and a trusted aide of Tejashwi Yadav, the son and heir apparent of RJD supremo Lalu Prasad. Rameez is said to be Tejashwi’s old friend who hails from a political family in neighbouring Uttar Pradesh, PTI reported.
I’m quitting politics and I’m disowning my family …
This is what Sanjay Yadav and Rameez had asked me to do …nd I’m taking all the blame’s— Rohini Acharya (@RohiniAcharya2) November 15, 2025
Who is Rohini Acharya
Besides belonging to the RJD first family, Acharya is a doctor by qualification, who chose to become a homemaker and settled with her Singapore-based husband.
She was in the news for donating a kidney to her father a few years ago, and had unsuccessfully contested last year’s Lok Sabha polls from Saran.
It was speculated that she was “unhappy” over the expulsion of Tej Pratap Yadav, elder son of Prasad, from the party. However, during the assembly elections, she was seen campaigning for younger brother Tejashwi, who was the Mahagathbandhan’s chief ministerial candidate.
What happened in Bihar polls
The RJD’s seat tally slipped to 24 from 75 in the Bihar assembly polls. The ruling NDA soared to one of the highest tally in state with the Mahagathbandhan plumbing lows, which was a blow to the Congress and the RJD.
The massive scale of the victory of the National Democratic Alliance(NDA) can be gauged from the fact that its two main constituents — BJP and JD(U) — clocked a nearly 85 per cent strike rate in 101 seats each they had contested.
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The alliance secured a “200 paar” win for a three-fourths majority in the 243-member Bihar assembly with the BJP emerging as the single largest party.
