Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Rohini Acharya, daughter of party president Lalu Prasad Yadav, on Saturday said she was quitting politics and “disowning” her family.

This came a day after the Rashtriya Janata Dal recorded its second-worst performance in the state Assembly elections, winning only 25 seats. In 2010, the party had won 22 seats.

The RJD was the single-largest party in the state in 2020 with 75 seats and a 23.5% vote share.

“I am quitting politics and I am disowning my family,” Acharya said on social media. “This is what Sanjay Yadav and Rameez had asked me to do…and I am taking all the blame.”

Sanjay Yadav is a Rajya Sabha MP from RJD and reportedly one of the trusted aides of Tejashwi Yadav, party leader who was the chief ministerial face of the Opposition Mahagathbandhan.

Rameez is said to be Tejashwi Yadav’s old friend who comes from a political family in Uttar Pradesh, reported PTI.

Acharya did not specify what Sanjay Yadav and Rameez had said to her.

She had unsuccessfully contested the 2024 Lok Sabha elections against Bharatiya Janata Party MP Rajiv Pratap Rudy.

Election results

The RJD had contested 143 seats in the 243-member Assembly as part of the Mahagathbandhan alliance, which also comprises the Congress, the Vikassheel Insaan Party and three Left parties – the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation, the Communist Party of India and the Communist Party of India (Marxist) – along with the newly formed Indian Inclusive Party.

The alliance could only secure 35 seats.

While the RJD bagged 25 seats, the Congress won six of the 61 seats it contested, the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation clinched two, the Communist Party of India and Indian Inclusive Party got one each.

Tejashwi Yadav won his Raghopur seat with a margin of 14,532 votes over the BJP’s Satish Kumar by 13,880 votes.

The ruling National Democratic Alliance won the elections with 202 seats. The BJP won 89 seats, while the JD(U) secured 85. The Lok Janshakti Party won 19 seats, the Hindustani Awam Morcha won five and the Rashtriya Lok Morcha won four.

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