Lalu's pari-war deepens as daughter Rohini Acharya urges Nitish Kumar to ensure ‘safe parental homes’ for women

Nearly a month after distancing herself from her family, RJD chief Lalu Prasad’s daughter Rohini Acharya has hinted at deeper tensions by urging the Bihar government to ensure that every woman feels safe in her parental home. Rohini, who resides in Singapore and donated a kidney to her father in December 2022 during his transplant surgery there, shared her concerns through a social media post on Thursday.

In her message, she indirectly acknowledged Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s schemes—such as giving Rs 10,000 to women and providing bicycles to schoolgirls—but argued that such initiatives fall short of creating meaningful change. According to Rohini, Bihar’s entrenched patriarchal attitudes demand transformations at both societal and political levels.



"Every daughter has the right to grow up with the assurance that her parental home is a safe place, where she can return without fear, guilt, shame, or having to explain herself to anyone," she wrote on X, adding that enforcing this principle is not merely an "administrative duty" but essential to protecting countless women from future abuse and mistreatment.

Her remarks come weeks after she resigned from the RJD and publicly severed ties with her family, reportedly following a heated confrontation—allegedly with her brother Tejashwi Yadav—over the party’s poor performance in the assembly elections. She had also claimed she was accused of donating a "dirty kidney" to her father after "extracting crores of rupees and a Lok Sabha ticket".

[With TOI inputs]