Rohini Acharya, daughter of RJD chief Lalu Yadav, had “disowned” her family yesterday, announcing her shocking move in a cryptic online post after her party’s devastating loss in Bihar. In a new post this morning that digs deeper into the Yadav family feud, the 46-year-old claimed that she was humiliated and abused, and a slipper was raised to hit her.
“Yesterday, a daughter, a sister, a married woman, a mother was humiliated, filthy abuses were hurled at her, a slipper was raised to hit her. I did not compromise on my self-respect, I did not surrender the truth, and solely because of this, I had to endure this insult,” said Acharya, who had donated a kidney to her father and RJD patriarch Lalu Yadav back in 2022.
In the emotional post, she claimed her parents and sisters were crying as she left her maternal house, wishing that no family ever had a daughter like her.
“Yesterday, a daughter, out of compulsion, left behind her crying parents and sisters and came away; they tore me away from my maternal home… They left me orphaned… May none of you ever walk my path, may no family ever have a daughter-sister like Rohini,” read Acharya’s post.
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She also took blame for the RJD’s poor performance, claiming that she disowned her family and quit politics at the instance of senior RJD leader Sanjay Yadav and Rameez Khan, who was in her younger brother Tejashwi Yadav’s core team. She made it public yesterday after an argument with Tejashwi, sources said, with the latter blaming her for the election defeat.
Elaborating on her post yesterday, Acharya had claimed that she was defamed and attacked with a slipper.
BJP’s “Patriarchal” Jibe
The BJP hit out at the RJD over Acharya’s exit, stating that Lalu Yadav favoured his son Tejashwi despite receiving a kidney from his daughter. Pointing to the slipper episode, Amit Malviya, who heads the BJP’s IT cell, described the Lalu Yadav family as having a “patriarchal, anti-woman, and male-dominated mentality.”
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“Rohini Acharya donated her kidney to her father Lalu Prasad without caring for her own life, so that his life could be extended by some time. But Lalu gave more preference to his son Tejashwi than to the honor of his daughter Rohini. Today, Rohini Acharya is publicly saying that she was even beaten with slippers in the family. This is the real face of the patriarchal, anti-woman, and male-dominated mentality of the Lalu family. It is also inappropriate to expect respect for women from them,” Malviya said.
The BJP’s ally, Chirag Paswan, refused to make a comment and said he considers all the Yadav children, Tejashwi Yadav, Tej Pratap, Misa Bharti, and Rohini Acharya, as siblings. “I have also been through this. We might have had political differences, but I always considered Lalu ji’s family my own. Be it Tejashwi, Tej, Misa or Rohini, I have considered them my siblings. So, I pray that this family dispute is resolved at the earliest,” he said.