Ahead of the Bihar Assembly elections, Tej Pratap Yadav, elder son of RJD supremo Lalu Prasad, on Friday announced the formation of a new political outfit, the Jan Shakti Janata Dal, which he described as being for “a long battle” in the state.
In a post on the social media platform X, Yadav shared a poster naming himself as the party’s “national president” and featuring a “blackboard” as its election symbol. The announcement comes months after the former state minister was expelled from the RJD.
The development follows his earlier claim in August that a coalition of five lesser-known parties had come together under his leadership. The Bihar Assembly elections are scheduled to be held later this year.
Sources in the Election Commission office in Patna told that they were not yet aware of the new party being officially registered or having been allotted an election symbol.
The move comes as the RJD faces signs of a family rift just before the polls, with discord apparent between Lalu Prasad’s elder son, Tej Pratap, and daughter, Rohini Acharya.
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Tej Pratap has been discontented since being expelled from the party, while Acharya has sparked speculation over her political intentions with a series of cryptic social media posts in recent days.
Acharya, 47, recently posted on X: “I have been performing my duties as a daughter and a sister and will continue to do so. Neither am I hankering after a post nor do I have any political ambitions. For me, self-respect is supreme.”
In another post, she shared a video recorded as she was taken into the operating theatre ahead of the 2022 surgery in which she donated a kidney to her father.
“For those who are ready to make sacrifices, putting their own life at stake, fearlessness, boldness, and self-respect run in the blood,” she wrote.
Acharya, a medical graduate who chose to become a homemaker and live in Singapore with her husband, first came to public attention in 2022 when she donated the kidney to her father.
In 2024, she made her electoral debut by contesting from the Saran constituency, once represented by Lalu Prasad, but was unsuccessful.
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