“I’m Quitting Politics”: Rohini Acharya After Bihar Poll Debacle

• Rohini Acharya announces she is quitting politics and “disowning” her family.
• Her decision comes a day after the Mahagathbandhan’s heavy defeat in Bihar elections.
• Move highlights widening rifts within the Yadav family after repeated setbacks.
• RJD restricted to 25 seats as NDA secures over 200 in the 2025 polls.

GG News Bureau
Patna, 15th Nov: Rohini Acharya, daughter of Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad Yadav, announced on Saturday that she is quitting politics and “disowning” her family. Her decision comes just a day after the Mahagathbandhan suffered a crushing defeat in the 2025 Bihar assembly elections.

In a post on X, Acharya wrote, “I’m quitting politics and I’m disowning my family… This is what Sanjay Yadav and Rameez had asked me to do… and I’m taking all the blame’s.” According to party insiders, she was unofficially held responsible for the RJD’s poor performance. Acharya, who was abroad in Singapore, had been called back for campaigning, though her participation was limited to Raghopur, the seat where her brother Tejashwi Yadav contested.

Her abrupt decision has brought the internal discord of the Yadav family back into the spotlight. Earlier, Tej Pratap Yadav was expelled from the RJD after Lalu Yadav reportedly severed family ties with him over what he termed “irresponsible behaviour.” Tej Pratap later launched the Janshakti Janata Dal (JJD), contesting 22 seats including Mahua, but his party failed to open its account in the elections.

The wider political setback for the Mahagathbandhan has compounded the family crisis. The RJD, once the single largest party in the 2015 and 2020 assembly polls, was reduced to 25 seats. The Congress won six seats, while the CPI(ML) Liberation and CPI(M) managed just three together, bringing the alliance total to 34 seats.

In sharp contrast, the NDA crossed the 200-seat mark. The BJP secured 89 seats, JDU 85, LJP (Ram Vilas) 19, HAM (Secular) five and the RLM four seats. Prashant Kishor’s Jan Suraaj Party (JSP), once viewed as a potential disruptor, also failed to win a single seat in the two-phase election held on November 6 and 11.

Acharya’s exit, coupled with the party’s electoral collapse, underscores a deepening crisis in the RJD’s leadership structure and the widening fissures within the Yadav family at a time of unprecedented political setback.