Overview
- Rohini Acharya announced on X that she is leaving politics and cutting ties with her family a day after RJD’s poor showing in the Bihar Assembly elections.
- She wrote that she took the step on the advice of RJD rebel Sanjay Yadav and her husband Rameez Alam and said she was “taking all the blame.”
- The development has been reported from her post on X, and further details have not been independently verified in the coverage.
- Acharya is a doctor who contested the 2024 Lok Sabha election from Saran and lost to BJP leader Rajeev Pratap Rudy.
- The move follows a year of family strife that included Lalu Prasad Yadav expelling his elder son Tej Pratap Yadav from the party.