Lalu Yadav’s Daughter Must Apologise To Nitish Kumar”: BJP’s Telling Move

New Delhi: 

The Bihar BJP on Thursday accused Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Yadav’s Singapore-based daughter Rohini Acharya of insulting Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and demanded a public apology from her.

Ms Acharya had used derogatory language against Mr Kumar, who is also the ruling Janata Dal (United) chief, in several posts on X and deleted them later, Bihar BJP leader Nikhil Anand said.

Sharing a screenshot of the purported deleted posts, Mr Anand said, “These are like an arrow released from the bow.”

The BJP leader said if Ms Acharya regretted having used words like “badtameez” (ill-mannered) against the Chief Minister in the posts, she should publicly apologise.

Some media reports claimed Ms Acharya had reacted to Mr Kumar’s statement against dynastic politics at a JD(U) rally commemorating former Chief Minister and socialist icon Karpoori Thakur’s birth anniversary on Wednesday. Thakur was conferred with the Bharat Ratna posthumously earlier this week.

While addressing the rally, Mr Kumar criticised dynastic politics, saying the JD(U) followed the path shown by Thakur by not promoting anyone from their families in the party ranks.

The comment was seen aimed at the RJD, an ally of the JD(U) in Bihar’s Mahagathbandhan government, in which Lalu Yadav’s sons are ministers.

Lalu Yadav’s younger son Tejashwi Yadav is the Deputy Chief Minister; the elder son Tej Pratap Yadav is a minister in the state cabinet. The RJD chief’s eldest daughter Misa Bharti is a Rajya Sabha member.