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

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