Lalu's daughter Rohini Acharya to contest from Saran Lok Sabha seat

Patna: RJD president Lalu Prasad's daughter Rohini Acharya, who is based in Singapore, is being considered for a Lok Sabha ticket from the Saran seat, earlier represented by her father, a senior party leader said on Tuesday.

RJD MLC Sunil Kumar Singh, who is known to be treated by Prasad's wife Rabri Devi as her own brother, said the party leadership has been apprised of the overwhelming public sentiment in Saran.

Singh, who had recently raised many eyebrows when he openly pitched for Acharya on social media, said, "It was not just my view. All our sitting and former legislators in Saran are of the view that Rohini, and none else, should be the RJD candidate." He said Acharya enjoyed respect on account of her "sacrifice", a reference to her having donated a kidney to her ailing father.

Singh added, "The party cadre has apprised the national president and (younger son and heir apparent) Tejashwi Yadav about its sentiment. It is for them to take a call." Notably, Saran, known as Chhapra prior to the 2008 delimitation, had been represented by Prasad a number of times.

The RJD supremo was the MP from Saran till 2013, when he got disqualified following the conviction in a fodder scam case.

The family has since tried to maintain its hold over the seat, though without success.

Rabri Devi and elder son Tej Pratap Yadav's father-in-law Chandrika Roy contested the seat in 2014 and 2019 respectively, both losing to BJP's Rajiv Pratap Rudy.

Besides the two sons, both MLAs and former ministers, the eldest daughter of Lalu Prasad and Rabri Devi Misa Bharti, a Rajya Sabha MP, is already in active politics.