Tejashwi Yadav appointed RJD's National Working President

The Rashtriya Janata Dal on Sunday has appointed party supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav’s son, Tejashwi Yadav, as its National Working President.


The key leadership change comes after the tally of the RJD, which was the single largest party in the 2020 Bihar polls with 75 seats, drastically reduced to less than half in the recent polls.


Yadav and his close aides, like Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Yadav, were squarely blamed for the poll debacle by his elder sister Rohini Acharya, who also alleged that when she insisted that accountability be fixed, abuses were hurled at her.

Yadav’s elder brother Tej Pratap Yadav, who had made his political debut along with the former in 2015, was expelled from the party by Prasad last year. Tej Pratap has since floated his own outfit, Janshakti Janta Dal, which is yet to make an impact.

Feud within Yadav family

Hours before the RJD's national executive meeting in Patna on Sunday, its president Lalu Prasad's daughter Rohini Acharya alleged that the control of the party has slipped into the "hands of infiltrators and conspirators whose sole objective is to destroy Laluvad".

Without naming anyone in her post on X, she said those responsible for the leadership in the party "should introspect rather than avoiding questions or creating confusion".

"Today, the real command of the party - known for fighting for the rights of the downtrodden- lies in the hands of infiltrators and conspirators sent by opponents. Their sole objective is to destroy 'Laluvad'...such people seem to have succeeded to a great extent in their dirty motives", she claimed on the social media platform.

Earlier, she raised her voice against the RJD's current leadership.

After the RJD was drubbed in the Bihar assembly polls last year, Prasad's daughter had announced that she was "quitting politics" and severed ties with the family.

"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 had written in her post in November last year.

Sanjay Yadav is the Rajya Sabha MP from RJD and one of the most trusted aides of Tejashwi Yadav, the son and heir apparent of the RJD supremo.

Rameez is said to be Tejashwi's old friend, hailing from a political family in the adjoining state of Uttar Pradesh.

Acharya, who was in the news for donating a kidney to her father a few years ago, had unsuccessfully contested the 2024 Lok Sabha polls from Saran.