Patna: The turmoil in the Lalu Yadav family deepened on Wednesday as Tej Pratap Yadav unleashed an extraordinary public attack on the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), warning that the party could shrink from 25 seats to just 5 if what he called the “new RJD culture” continued.
In a long, emotional post shared on the Instagram handle of his new party, Janshakti Janata Dal, Tej Pratap accused his younger brother Tejashwi Yadav of humiliating both him and their sister Rohini Acharya, who recently cut ties with the party after a fierce internal feud.
‘Rohini Was Thrown Out Like a Devi’
Tej Pratap, in a pointed reference to his sister, wrote that “first I was removed, then my sister Rohini was removed like Devi.”
He added:
“The whole of Bihar was laughing. The family that once made people laugh and cry has itself become a joke.”
The post, which has triggered heated political debate, portrays a picture of a family—and a party—split down the middle after its crushing electoral defeat.
‘From 80… to 75… to 25… Soon It Will Be 5’
Tej Pratap cited the party’s seat tally across three elections as evidence of its downfall:
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2015 – 80 seats
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2020 – 75 seats
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2025 – 25 seats
“See the numbers yourself,” he wrote, arguing that the decline reflects what he called “sycophancy, conspiracies and arrogance” within the current leadership.
“If the attitude remains the same, it won’t take long to go from 25 to 5. The public has already shown where the mistake is.”
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‘This Is Not Politics, This Is War’
Tej Pratap claimed that his own expulsion from the party marked the beginning of RJD’s downfall.
“When I was thrown out, they thought—Tej Pratap is useless, what difference will it make? But when I revealed the truth of the new RJD, they realised what they had lost.”
Accusing the party of abandoning the ideology of Lalu Prasad Yadav, he said the RJD had now been “hijacked by Jayachands,” adding:
“Where sycophants sit instead of principles, and conspiracies replace dedication, the questions themselves become hollow.”
‘Who Stands With the Truth?’
In one of his sharpest lines, Tej Pratap wrote:
“Politics is not about the chair—it is about character. Bihar is no longer asking who will stay; Bihar is asking who stands with the truth.”
He claimed his new party fought 44 seats and secured 5, asserting that this outcome showed people were rejecting the current RJD leadership.
