Krishna To Chaos: Why Lalu Lastly Pressured Tej Pratap To Log Out Earlier than 2025 Bihar Polls

Final Up to date:Could 26, 2025, 13:01 IST

Tej Pratap has pulled off what no BJP strategist, rogue chief, or Bihar bureaucrat may — getting himself publicly disowned by his father Lalu Prasad Yadav.

For years, Tej Pratap – Bihar’s former chief minister Lalu Prasad Yadav’s elder son – wandered by the state’s political panorama like a meme in movement — dressed as Lord Shiva sooner or later, launching “inexperienced” revolutions from his bicycle the following. At occasions, providing his companies to the Airforce as a ‘registered pilot’ publish Operation Sindoor, and generally summoning police personnel to bounce to his tune, whereas sometimes reminding everybody that he, too, was Lalu Prasad Yadav’s son.

However within the run as much as the essential elections, Tej Pratap has pulled off what no BJP strategist, rogue chief, or Bihar bureaucrat may — getting himself publicly disowned by his father Lalu Prasad Yadav. Not simply from the Rastriya Janata Dal (RJD), however from the household itself.

Not with a press convention or a midnight purge, however with one thing much more deadly and important. Lalu Prasad has despatched his son to the political chilly storage by issuing a press release on Sunday.

The viral publish that broke the dynasty

All of it started, as all massive issues do, with a viral photograph. Tej Pratap, by no means one to shrink back from drama, or controversy, posted an image with Anushka Yadav — a lady beforehand linked to him and recognized as a ‘shut buddy’ in quiet household circles, however by no means confirmed publicly. The photograph was accompanied by Tej Pratap’s dramatic declare that that they had been in a “relationship for 12 years.” These 12 years additionally embrace the interval when Tej Pratap was married.

What adopted was not only a social media storm however a full-blown ‘parivarik’ coup, full with a Lalu-style press observe on morality, values, disgrace, and a six-year political vanvaas. It’s not simply the top of a Yadav household drama — it’s the political model of Bigg Boss. Lalu’s assertion was adopted by the flurry of feedback from Tej’s siblings together with his brother Tejasvi, Bihar’s former deputy chief minister and sister Rohini Acharya.

Sources within the RJD stated that Lalu lastly pulled the plug on Tej Pratap in a deliberate transfer to make sure his exit from the get together’s energy grid.

The rationale? Sources stated that even a dynasty must detox generally. An RJD chief stated, “This household and the get together – each run on Marx, Mandal, and ethical values — not midnight Instagram confessions.” And identical to that, Tej Pratap was ghosted by his father — formally and politically.

At all times the son, by no means the chief

Tej Pratap’s newest antic is not only one massive mistake. It was a end result of a thousand cringe moments. His political journey has been half mythology, half misadventure, half comedy — from warning get together spokespersons of divine retribution to threatening impartial candidacies that nobody requested for.

He was inducted within the state cupboard in 2015, and in three years his marital discord grew to become public. In 2019, he floated his personal political outfit named the Lalu-Rabri Morcha expressing ‘concern and dissatisfaction’ over the functioning of the RJD.

Despite the fact that he claimed that it was not an offshoot of the RJD, his transfer was considered as an indication of inside rift. The platform had fewer followers than his Instagram reside movies, the place he routinely accused his youthful brother Tejaswi of ignoring “religious truths” .

In the meantime, the RJD was attempting to rebrand and promote the younger Tejasvi because the face. With Lalu’s well being being fragile and Tejaswi working time beyond regulation because the accountable, economy-talking, spreadsheet-reading fashionable neta, Tej Pratap’s “cow-politics-meets-Kurukshetra” routine was turning into much less amusing, and extra alarming.

Why Now? Election Yr, Political Housekeeping

Election yr is not any time for simply cringe and drama in Bihar, specifically when Lalu’s get together is up for its survival. This isn’t only a case of a son embarrassing his father.

A senior RJD chief stated, “With the 2025 Bihar elections on the horizon, the get together is dealing with a better problem within the type of BJP-JDU alliance, Lalu ji wanted to current a clear, consolidated entrance. Tejaswi ji is a secure heir and rising as a prudent politician. He’s attempting to make the RJD a disciplined drive, the place the get together can not afford a free cannon or everlasting embarrassment.”

Sources within the get together additionally added that it was Tejasvi who pushed his father to ‘finish this drama’ or face public embarrassment regularly earlier than elections. “We additionally had data that Tej Pratap ji was planning to subject some impartial candidates to sabotage his brother’s place in some areas. He was indulging into anti-party actions as properly,” added the chief.

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