Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief and former Bihar Chief Minister Lalu Prasad
| Photograph Credit score: EMMANUAL YOGINI
For the primary time, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief and former Bihar Chief Minister Lalu Prasad is becoming a member of the 2024 Lok Sabha election marketing campaign, for his daughter Rohini Acharya, who’s contesting from the Saran seat. Mr. Prasad has so far not campaigned for any RJD or Mahagathbandhan alliance candidate. However on Wednesday, Mr. Prasad, alongside along with his spouse and former CM Rabri Devi, moved to Saran, the place they’re anticipated to camp for two-three days. Ms. Acharya is in a direct contest in opposition to the Bharatiya Janata Get together’s (BJP) sitting MP Rajiv Pratap Rudy.
Earlier, a number of BJP and Janata Dal-United (JD-U) leaders criticised Mr. Prasad for not collaborating in his get together’s marketing campaign, to which Ms. Acharya had replied that the ruling alliance ought to first cope with his kids, who had been sufficient to problem them.
Now that Mr. Prasad has bodily joined the marketing campaign, the competition in Saran, hitherto a stronghold of his household, shall be eager.
The RJD chief himself had received the seat, first in 1977, after which in 1989, 2004, and 2009. In 2014, nevertheless, his spouse contested the election from Saran unsuccessfully. In 2019, Chandrika Rai, the daddy of Mr. Prasad’s daughter-in-law, was defeated by Mr. Rudy.
Mr. Prasad and his daughter had been seen collectively in a sports activities utility automobile (SUV), whereas Ms. Devi was in one other SUV.
Requested about Mr. Prasad’s marketing campaign, RJD chief and former Deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav stated Saran was his father’s karmbhoomi (office). “Sure, don’t you assume he ought to be a part of the marketing campaign? He has gone to Saran, which has been his karmbhoomi (office), and the folks of Saran have at all times given their blessings to Lalu-ji. It was the need and want of the folks of Saran that although Lalu-ji can not contest the election, he ought to area his daughter Rohini. Lalu-ji is the chief of the Mahagathbandhan, and now he’ll marketing campaign extra,” Mr. Yadav stated.
“The way in which my sister has served our dad and mom and given jeevan daan (reward of life; Ms. Acharya donated a kidney to her ailing father) to Lalu-ji, in the identical manner Rohini will serve the folks of Saran as her dad and mom,” Mr. Yadav stated.
For the reason that begin of the RJD’s marketing campaign, Mr. Tejashwi Yadav has been on the forefront, conducting 4 to 6 rallies daily in help of Mahagathbandhan candidates.
Ms. Acharya is the second daughter, and the fourth amongst Mr. Prasad’s 9 kids to have entered into politics.
When her identify was introduced because the candidate from the Saran seat, a number of BJP leaders, together with Deputy CM Samrat Choudhary, made veiled assaults on the Prasad household. Mr. Choudhary accused Mr. Prasad of promoting the Lok Sabha ticket to his daughter in lieu of a kidney. The opposite Deputy CM, Vijay Kumar Sinha, described her because the bahu (daughter-in-law) of Singapore, a reference to the nation the place Mr. Prasad underwent his transplant.
In her marketing campaign, Ms. Acharya has constantly pressured change within the Saran seat, and has pledged to finish the work her father has been unable to do.
