Lalu Prasad Yadav바카라s elder son Tej Pratap Yadav, sulking for long over his 바카라neglect바카라 in the RJD, has raised a banner of revolt against his younger brother Tejashwi, and also accused the younger sibling바카라s close aides of creating differences between the two.
What had initially started off as a fight between Tej Pratap and Jagdanand Singh, the state party president, has turned into a power struggle between 바카라Arjun바카라 and 바카라Krishna바카라, as Tej Pratap loves to describe his younger brother and himself. Tej Pratap is now quoting Dinkar바카라s epic Rashmirathi, warning the Tejashwi camp to either give him 바카라five villages바카라 or face a Mahabharat.
Tej Pratap has been miffed with Singh, a long-time confidant of Lalu, ever since his protégé Akash Yadav was removed as president of the party students wing.
But Singh refuses to take cognisance of Tej Pratap바카라s outbursts, saying he is accountable to Lalu alone. 바카라Who is Tej Pratap?바카라 he retorted in Patna recently. It infuriated Tej Pratap further, who advised Singh to ask Lalu Prasad to find out 바카라who is Tej Pratap?바카라
Singh had stopped coming to the party office for days, apparently to express his anger over repeated attacks on him by Tej Pratap, who had often accused him of running the organisation like an autocrat and even likened him to Hitler.
With Tej Pratap refusing to budge from his stand, Tejashwi sought to intervene by advising his brother to show some respect to elders and to maintain discipline within the party. 바카라He is an elder brother. It is a different thing, but everybody has to maintain discipline in the party,바카라 Tejashwi told reporters. 바카라There could be grievances but our parents have given us the sanskar to show respect and honour to the elders and maintain discipline.바카라
This, however, prompted Tej Pratap to launch a tirade against his brother, questioning his decision to leave Bihar for Delhi at a time when the state was reeling under the havoc of floods. 바카라He should have been in Bihar serving Bihar.바카라
He also blames Tejashwi바카라s political advisor Sanjay Yadav for creating a rift between the brothers despite claiming that no conspiracy can separate them.
Tejashwi had gone to Delhi recently to meet his sisters on Raksha Bandhan, and to join the all-party delegation led by chief minister Nitish Kumar, which met Prime Minister Narendra Modi on August 23 to press the demand for a countrywide caste census.
Even as the rivalry seems to be worsening within the RJD, political opponents are quick to hit out at Lalu바카라s family, Former deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi says that Lalu Prasad himself did not ever follow any propriety and discipline in public life and his sons are following in his footsteps.
The senior BJP leader says that Tej Pratap바카라s attack on Singh is merely the outcome of the infighting in RJD. 바카라The elder brother is hitting out at a senior leader like Singh out of sheer frustration over not getting enough importance in the party. The real target is somebody else,바카라 he says. 바카라Time will tell who will ultimately emerge as Dara Shikoh and who will rule the organisation as Aurangzeb, but the party바카라s health seems to be far from good.바카라
RJD leaders, however, hope that the warring brothers will call it a truce after the intervention of Lalu Prasad, who is currently recovering from illness at his daughter Misa Bharti바카라s house in Delhi. Some party leaders also believe that Tej Pratap is being instigated by vested interests who keep telling him that being the elder son, he should have been anointed as Lalu바카라s successor in the first place, not his younger brother Tejashwi.
(This appeared in the print edition as "Krishna-Arjun Battle In Bihar")
