'Lalu's family disintegrating under Bihar’s people curse': Amit Malviya on Rohini's 'abuse' allegations against Tejashwi

Rohini Acharya with parents Lalu Yadav and Rabri Devi

BJP IT cell head Amit Malviya launched a scathing attack on the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and the party patriarch Lalu Yadav family heralded by his son and former deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav over allegations of abuse levelled by his sister and RJD leader Rohini Acharya against her brother.

Reacting to the alleged abuse meted out to Acharya as shared by her, Malviya said, "Tejashwi Yadav raising a slipper against his sister Rohini Yadav cannot be justified under any circumstances."

He further said that what is emerging “is no coincidence.” According to him, this reflects the “downfall of that very family which once caused pain to millions of families,” stressing that “karma neither forgets nor forgives.”

Malviya recalled earlier controversies involving the family, noting allegations of mistreatment faced by Tejashwi's elder brother Tej Pratap’s former wife Aishwarya Rai and how “she was thrown out of the house.”

He also referred to Tej Pratap feeling sidelined “by those very people for whom he had always fought,” suggesting a pattern of internal discord.

Now, he argued, even “the same daughter who once saved her father’s life” has faced “humiliation, threats, and mistreatment,” while other sisters were allegedly compelled to leave their father’s home. He concluded that the Lalu Prasad Yadav family was “disintegrating under the curse of Bihar’s people and the burden of its own karma.”

In Hyderabad, BJP leader Boora Narsaiah Goud commented on the turmoil that followed Rohini Acharya’s announcement that she had severed ties with her family and withdrawn from politics. He maintained that the “game of wealth and power sharing” was leading to the collapse of dynastic politics.

According to him, such conflicts are not confined to one household, asserting that disputes arise from “power sharing and the vast wealth acquired through corrupt means,” and that the same “has happened in Bihar.”

Claiming that she was "cursed at" for donating a "dirty kidney" to her father Lalu Prasad in exchange for money and a party ticket, Rohini Acharya on Sunday said "she has been made an orphan", and advised all married women to refrain from saving "your God-like father if he has a son".

In an emotional outburst, 47-year-old Acharya, in a series of posts on X, said that "may no household give birth to a girl with a fate like that of Rohini".

The posts came a day after her announcement that she was quitting the party and disowning her family, while putting the blame for the RJD's debacle in the recent Bihar polls on her brother Tejashwi Yadav's close aides – RJD's MP Sanjay Yadav, who hails from Haryana, and Rameez, who is from a political family in Uttar Pradesh.

"Yesterday, I was cursed at and told that I am dirty, and that I got my father to have my dirty kidney transplanted into him, took crores of rupees, bought a ticket, and then got that dirty kidney put in," Acharya, who had unsuccessfully contested the Saran Lok Sabha seat in last year's general elections, said.

A doctor by qualification, she had on Saturday announced that she was quitting politics and disowning her family, insisting that accountability be fixed for the party's poor performance in the recently held polls, in which the RJD won only 25 seats of the 243-strong Bihar assembly. She had also spoken bitterly of Sanjay and Rameez, alleging they claimed to be master strategists like 'Chanakya' but paid no heed to feedback from grassroots-level workers.

In an apparent dig at Tejashwi and his former personal assistant Sanjay Yadav, who has come to enjoy tremendous clout in party affairs, she said, "To all the married women, I will say that when there's a son in your maternal home, never, ever save your God-like father; instead, tell your brother, the son of that house, to get his own kidney or that of one of his Haryanvi friends transplanted." "All sisters and daughters should look after their own homes and families, take care of their children and their in-laws' household without caring for their parents, think only about themselves," she added.

Acharya said she committed a "huge sin" by not looking after her family, which includes her three children, and not taking permission from her husband or in-laws before donating a kidney to her father during a transplant in Singapore a few years ago.

"I did what I did to save my God -- my father -- and today, the kidney is being called 'dirty'... May none of you ever make a mistake like mine, may no family ever have a daughter like Rohini," she added.

In another post, she alleged that she was verbally abused and a slipper was raised to hit her.

"Yesterday, a daughter, a sister, a married woman, a mother was humiliated, filthy abuses were hurled at her, a slipper was raised to hit her. I did not compromise on my self-respect, I did not surrender the truth, and solely because of this, I had to endure this insult... Yesterday, a daughter, out of compulsion, left behind her crying parents and sisters and came away; they tore me away from my maternal home... They left me orphaned," she added.

In her outbursts, Acharya has also been targeting another close aide of her brother, Rameez, who is said to be a son-in-law of Rizwan Zaheer, a Samajwadi Party leader and a former MP from Balrampur in neighbouring Uttar Pradesh.

She also shared a post, written by another user on X, in which it was claimed that both Zaheer and Rameez were facing murder cases and the former was currently lodged in jail.

No family member of Prasad's family has reacted to Acharya's public outbursts so far.

With PTI inputs