‘Neglecting Ethical Values’: RJD Chief Lalu Yadav Expels Son Tej Pratap From Celebration For six Years

Final Up to date:Could 25, 2025, 20:36 IST

“I’ve at all times been an advocate of public disgrace in public life. The obedient family members have adopted and adopted this concept in public life,” Lalu Yadav stated.

Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav on Sunday expelled his eldest son Tej Pratap Yadav from the occasion for six years and disowned from the household , citing his “irresponsible conduct” and deviation from the household’s values.

The choice got here a day after the previous Bihar minister shared a publish on social media, the place he had declared that he was in a relationship with a younger girl named Anushka Yadav for 12 years. Later he claimed that his Fb web page was “hacked”.

Asserting the transfer in a publish on X, the RJD patron stated that ignoring ethical values in private life weakens the occasion’s collective battle for social justice. He additional stated that conduct of Tej Pratap Yadav was not in keeping with household values or traditions.

“Neglecting ethical values ​​in private life weakens our collective battle for social justice. The actions, public conduct and irresponsible habits of the eldest son aren’t in accordance with our household values ​​and sanskaar. Subsequently, as a result of above circumstances, I’m eradicating him from the occasion and the household. Any further, he won’t have any sort of function within the occasion and the household. He’s expelled from the occasion for six years,” he stated in a publish on X.

Lalu Yadav additional stated that those that would maintain their relation with Tej Pratap ought to make their very own knowledgeable selections.

“He’s able to seeing the nice and dangerous and the deserves and demerits of his private life. Whoever can have relations with him ought to determine with their very own discretion. I’ve at all times been an advocate of public disgrace in public life. The obedient family members have adopted and adopted this concept in public life,” he added.

Household Reacts

Echoing comparable ideas, Lalu Yadav’s youthful son Tejashwi Yadav reacted to his father’s choice and stated that one ought to maintain their political and private life separate.

“We can not tolerate such issues, we’re working and are devoted to the folks of Bihar. If it’s about my large brother, political life and private life are completely different. He has the appropriate to make his private selections. He’s an grownup and free to make selections. Our occasion’s chief has made it clear, and ever since he has stated so, it’s his emotions. We didn’t query such issues… What he’s doing in his private life, no person asks earlier than doing something. I’ve come to learn about it through the media solely,” Tejashwi Yadav stated.

Lalu Yadav’s daughter and Tej Pratap’s sister Rohini Acharya additionally supported her father’s choice of expelling her brother saying that those that abandon their knowledge, they make themselves the topic of criticism.

“Those that care for the dignity of the setting, custom, household and upbringing are by no means questioned. Those that abandon their knowledge and repeatedly commit the error of crossing the bounds of first rate conduct and household status, they make themselves the topic of criticism. For us, Papa is like God, household is our temple and satisfaction and the occasion constructed by Papa’s tireless efforts and struggles and the idea of social justice are our worship. We are going to by no means settle for that the fame of those three is tarnished because of anybody,” she stated in a publish on X.

What’s The Row?

The choice got here after a Fb publish by Tej Pratap blew the lid off the matter. On Saturday, he posted on the social media platform that he was “in a relationship” with a younger girl, prompting netizens to recall his marital dispute that made headlines a couple of years in the past.

Within the publish, he had additionally shared {a photograph} of himself with the younger girl.

“The one seen on this image is Anushka Yadav. We now have been identified to one another for the final 12 years. We’re in love and have been in a relationship for 12 years,” the caption learn.

Later, he claimed that his Fb web page was “hacked” saying that there was an try and “defame and harass” him and his members of the family.

In a Hindi clarification shared shortly after the viral publish, Tej Pratap wrote: “My social media platforms have been hacked and my images are being edited inappropriately to harass and defame me and my household. I enchantment to my well-wishers and followers to remain alert and never take note of any rumours”.

Tej Pratap’s Failed Marriage

Yadav had tied the knot with Aishwarya, the grand-daughter of former Bihar chief minister Daroga Rai in 2018. Nevertheless, inside a couple of months, Aishwarya left his home, alleging that she was pushed out by her husband and in-laws.

Her father, Chandrika Roy, a former minister himself, give up the RJD, vowing to battle his daughter’s battle “politically and legally”.

The couple’s divorce petition is pending earlier than the household courtroom in Patna. Each side have since been buying and selling expenses. Whereas Yadav has accused his spouse of demanding a princely sum by the use of alimony, Aishwarya has alleged that her estranged husband was a deviant who took medication and, in non-public, dressed like a girl.

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