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‘Never, ever save your god-like father if …’: Rohini Acharya says ‘was cursed at’ for donating ‘dirty kidney’ to Lalu Prasad Yadav

May none of you ever make a mistake like mine, may no family ever have a daughter like Rohini," she wrote on X.

Her move reflects long-standing tensions over influence, candidate selection, and Tejashwi’s inner circle.Rohini Acharya announced her exit from politics and her family a day after RJD’s electoral collapse, signalling widening fissures within Lalu Prasad’s household. (Image via X: @RohiniAcharya2)
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Day after “disowning” her family, RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav’s daughter Rohini Acharya issued an emotional statement, saying she was “cursed at” and told that she donated a “dirty kidney” to her father who required a transplantation..

“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…,” she wrote on X. “To all the daughters and sisters who are married, I will say that when there’s a son or brother 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…,” she added hinting at the feud spiralling within the Yadav family.


She also said that all “sisters and daughters” should look after their own homes, and take care of their children and in-laws’ household, “without caring for their parents, think only about themselves…”. “For me, it became a huge sin that I didn’t look after my family, my three children, didn’t take permission from my husband or my in-laws when donating the kidney… I did what I did to save my god, my father, and today it’s been called dirty… May none of you ever make a mistake like mine, may no family ever have a daughter like Rohini,” she said.

In an earlier post Rohini also alleged that she 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 wrote.

A day after the RJD-led Mahagathbandhan suffered a crushing defeat at the hands of the incumbent NDA in the Bihar Assembly polls, Rohini Acharya announced Saturday that she was “quitting” politics and severing her ties with her family.

The timing of her announcement was significant as the Bihar poll results saw the NDA storming back to power, with the RJD’s tally plunging to 25 seats from 75 seats it had secured in the 2020 elections.

A doctor by training, Acharya, who largely stayed out of active politics until recent years, had chosen to become a homemaker and settled with her husband in Singapore.

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