Lalu Prasad’s sons Tej Pratap Yadav and Tejashwi Yadav have given up their tug of war to work jointly for the victory of their eldest sister Misa Bharti. Tej Pratap had recently quit as the patron of the party’s students’ wing and campaigned against RJD nominees when the names recommended by him were ignored. At a rally on Sunday, the two brothers stood side by side, holding aloft a photograph of their jailed father. Tej Pratap Yadav also reaffirmed his “fondness” for his younger brother, saying he saw him as Arjuna, who he was helping as Lord Krishna.
The rift between Tej Pratap and his family first surfaced when he filed a divorce petition against his newly married wife and widened when his estranged father-in-law Chandrika Rai, a former minister, was chosen to contest from Saran.
Both Lalu Prasad and Rabri Devi had fought elections from Saran constituency in the past.
An RJD leader said on condition of anonymity that the two brothers came together at the insistence of Misa Bharti, who made them sit together and explained that by fighting each other they will end up falling into the trap of the BJP-led NDA, which wants to “finish off the party.